MARCO POLO AND THE SILK ROAD, Philip Freeman

Chair of Humanities at Pepperdine University and author of ALEXANDER THE GREAT and JULIUS CAESAR Philip Freeman’s biography of  Marco Polo, whose journey along thousands of miles of the Silk Road was chronicled in his own Travels and other medieval sources, from his boyhood in Venice to his trek across Asia to China as a teenager, his years and adventures at the court of the great Kublai Khan, and his long voyage home; drawing on the author’s own travels along Marco Polo’s route. (Pegasus, North American Rights, Fall 2027)