Book extract: Marco Polo's China travels have been doubted, but historian sees them in a new light

With his outlandish stories of the East, Marco Polo has always drawn scepticism. But historian and author Christopher Harding’s latest book makes the intrepid Venetian’s travels harder to doubt.

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