Accompanying two priests to the East to ostensibly convert the court of Kublai Khan to Christianity, Venetian trader Marco Polo eventually pushes bravely forth alone toward a fabled heartland. Accepted as an envoy into Khan's court, Marco Polo advances as a Mongol grandee where for twenty extraordinary years he is marooned on the far side of the world.
Accompanying two priests to the East to ostensibly convert the court of Kublai Khan to Christianity, Venetian trader Marco Polo eventually pushes bravely forth alone toward a fabled heartland. Accepted as an envoy into Khan's court, Marco Polo advances as a Mongol grandee where for twenty extraordinary years he is marooned on the far side of the world.