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When Marco Polo returned to Venice in 1295, he told fantastic tales of what he had seen, drawing scorn and accusations of exaggeration. Marco’s descriptions appeared to the Venetians to be the wild ramblings of a child’s imagination. Marco, however, insisted that his stories were true. On his deathbed, Marco said, “I have not to
