![Returning to Venice after 24 years of travelling in Asia, Marco Polo was imprisoned and spent the few months of his incarceration recounting his adventures to a fellow inmate, Rustichello da Pisa, Returning to Venice after 24 years of travelling in Asia, Marco Polo was imprisoned and spent the few months of his incarceration recounting his adventures to a fellow inmate, Rustichello da Pisa,](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2B014W1/returning-to-venice-after-24-years-of-travelling-in-asia-marco-polo-was-imprisoned-and-spent-the-few-months-of-his-incarceration-recounting-his-adventures-to-a-fellow-inmate-rustichello-da-pisa-who-incorporated-the-tales-into-a-book-he-called-the-travels-of-marco-polo-although-the-book-opened-european-eyes-to-the-chinese-use-of-paper-money-and-the-burning-of-coal-many-readers-were-more-entranced-with-some-of-the-legends-and-folklore-that-marco-polo-heard-along-the-way-in-india-he-was-told-that-the-island-people-of-the-andamans-in-the-indian-ocean-had-heads-eyes-and-teeth-like-those-2B014W1.jpg)
Returning to Venice after 24 years of travelling in Asia, Marco Polo was imprisoned and spent the few months of his incarceration recounting his adventures to a fellow inmate, Rustichello da Pisa,
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![Marco Polo with elephants and camels arriving at Hormuz on the Gulf of Persia from India posters & prints by Boucicaut Master Marco Polo with elephants and camels arriving at Hormuz on the Gulf of Persia from India posters & prints by Boucicaut Master](https://previews.magnoliabox.com/bridgeman/mb_hero/bal38966/MUS-FAPC1114_850.jpg)
Marco Polo with elephants and camels arriving at Hormuz on the Gulf of Persia from India posters & prints by Boucicaut Master
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