One early explorer’s journeys would not have been so well known to us if he had not been imprisoned a few years after his travels. His name was:
A) Marco Polo ü B) Sir John Mandeville C) Christopher Columbus D) Erik the Red
Marco Polo traveled in Asia from 1271 to 1295, and for 17 years was a personal emissary of the Khan. He told stories of his travels to friends, but wrote nothing down. In 1298 Venice and Genoa fought, and Marco was captured and put in prison in Genoa, where he dictated his adventures to a fellow-prisoner, a writer named Rustichello of Pisa.
