A DIVISION OF
LERNER PUBLISHING GROUP
Marco Polo,
once a traveler, then a
soldier, sits inside a prison cell. Battered and feverish,
he speaks of his journeys—and takes his first steps
into the pages of history.
The son of a traveling merchant, Marco Polo spent his early years
among the ports of Venice, Italy. As a young man, he headed eastward
with his father and his uncle, toward the lands of the Mongol emperor
Kublai Khan. Their journey from Europe into Asia, marked by risks,
setbacks, and discoveries, transformed every person involved.
It also
led to one of the world’s most studied, most debated travelogues.
Marco Tabilio, an emerging talent of Italian cartooning, creates a
graphic novel in the form of a puzzle and finds the coming-of-age tale
within the legend of Marco Polo.
