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13th century Venetian trader Marco Polo is enlisted to accompany a pair of priests to the court of Kublai Khan, Mongol conqueror of the East. The mission is to convert the most populous and wealthiest nation in the world to Christianity. Yet the priests aren’t even convinced that the sophisticated nation of China even exists. After all, God put Europe as the center of the world. How could there be anything but barbarism beyond? Not willing to risk their lives in the increasingly precipitous and treacherous Pamir Mountains, the priests turn back home, leaving Marco, his father Niccolo, and his Uncle Maffeo to push ahead through blinding blizzards and across the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts.   more