Listen "From Venice to Kublai Khan"
Episode Synopsis
A Venetian teenager leaves home with two older relatives and a bag of letters from the Pope. Twenty four years later he comes back with a head full of Asia, a coat lined with jewels, and a story that will rewrite how Europe pictures the world. Tonight we follow Marco Polo from Venice to Xanadu, through deserts that crack underfoot and courts where a wrong word can end you. We will hear how paper money moves an empire, how salt funds armies, and how a Mongol princess survives a murderous sea. We will wrestle with the skeptics, sort the facts from the fables, and listen for the man inside the legend. No romance, no fairy dust, just a working merchant who learned to look, to listen, and to tell. Bring your curiosity. Leave your certainty at the dock. The world he saw is closer than you think.
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