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Marco Polo was a Venetian traveler who went far to the East, following some of the many branches of the Silk Road. He left in 1271 and returned about 1295. His book about his travels was a best-seller then and is still well-known 700 years later.
William Dalrymple retraced the route in the 1980s and wrote a book, In Xanadu , about it.
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