When William Jeakle, one of the producers who helped get Bill Nye his own TV show, took his family to London a couple years ago, his young children wanted to stay in the hotel and watch "The Simpsons" ...

Medieval audiences couldn’t get enough of Polo’s fascinating accounts of faraway lands, turning his book into a runaway success. Marco Polo carries his popular book Il Milione, known in English as the ...

In "Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu," Laurence Bergreen tackles the shaky data surrounding the legendary world traveler who ostensibly brought pasta to Italy. Polo wrote a manuscript about his years ...

The world-famous explorer Marco Polo is credited with many things, but perhaps the greatest is compiling one of the world’s first best-selling travelogues. Published around 1300, the book chronicles ...