This fascinating historical story tells about the events of bygone days, about the times when Grand Duke Igor defended the Russian land from the Polovtsian i...

Tim Severin's travels continue! The book by the famous adventurer is dedicated to the “discovery of the East.” In it, he tells how, as a student at Oxford Un...

Modern travelers never dreamed of the dangers and miracles that the merchants of the 13th century encountered on the Great Silk Road. Marco Polo was seventee...

Marco Polo, a 13th-century merchant, explorer, adventurer and traveler, was the first and perhaps most famous European to make a long journey through Asia an...

In the Middle Ages, Europeans knew almost nothing about the countries of the East. The knowledge of the Italians - the most knowledgeable people at that time...

Ave Davidson's novel tells the story of Marco Polo's long journey to China and the incredible adventures that happened to the traveler on the way to the Cele...

As often happens with outstanding people, Marco Polo, the son of a Venetian merchant and traveler, was not noticed by his contemporaries. In truth, we would ...

This book features one of Heller's favorite characters, Dr. Zimmerthur from Amsterdam. Having met an astrologer in a bathhouse, the doctor enters into an agr...

The Mongol Khan entrusted the famous traveler Marco Polo with a special insignia - a gold plate "paiza". The owner of the paizi had special powers and could ...

Mongol Empire. It covered almost all of Eurasia, and only on the territory of Hungary were the Mongols stopped, forcing them to turn back, but even then they...