A book about the diversity of the world

Marco Polo (1254-1324) - the famous Italian merchant and traveler, the creator of the unique book "On the Diversity of the World", which has become a kind of bestseller of the Middle Ages. Thanks to a bold commercial enterprise to search for new markets in East Asia, Marco Polo finds himself in China. Due to the favor of the Eastern lords who entrusted the Venetian various missions, he manages to travel all over China, Mongolia and some Indian provinces, and then return to his homeland and record the incredible and attractive for the Europeans'' memories of his travels. "The book about the diversity of the world" played an important role in the geographical and cartographic business, refuted the old ideas about the brutal barbarism of the Far Eastern peoples, first told many interesting facts about the East Asian culture, ethnography, science and politics.