The collection reflects an important page in the history of relations between the West and the East. Europe, having heard that the limits of the inhabited world extended much further than the Earthly Paradise, tried through the efforts of travelers and missionaries of the 13th–14th centuries. find out what life is like in mysterious, enigmatic and previously unknown countries. The reader will get acquainted with the story of how the Dominican monk Julian searched for Great Hungary, as well as with the fictional history of the reign of Genghis Khan - as it was seen by the author of the "Flower Book of Stories of the East", a native of Armenia monk Guyoton, little-known details of Mark Polo's journey and a description The Middle Empire under the Yuan Dynasty - "The Book of the State of the Great Khan."