He Claimed 17 Years With Kublai Khan… But It All Began in a Prison Cell

The greatest travel story in human history didn’t begin on the Silk Road…
It began inside a cold Genoese prison.

Captured in a naval battle off the coast of Anatolia, Marco Polo was thrown into a stone cell—where he met a bankrupt romance writer. And in those long, quiet nights, he told stories of jade cities, sky-covered lakes, golden kingdoms, and emperors who commanded 10,000 war elephants.

He claimed he spent 17 years in the court of Kublai Khan, witnessing wonders the Western world had never imagined.

Was it true?
Was it fiction?
Or was it the greatest blend of reality and legend ever written?

This is the forgotten beginning of Marco Polo’s journey—before he became a legend.

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