Excerpt from Tales of Old Travel With an apology for this tedious, but I hope correct introduction, I will at once begin on my main theme. It was in the year 1250, that two noble Venetian gentlemen, Nicolo and Maffeo Paolo, or, as we will say in future, Polo, left Venice, on an adventurous trading journey among these very Tartars, of whom we have been saying so much. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.