Messer Marco Polo

“But that man’s dead!” comes the protest. “He was in New York,” answers the storyteller—and, before the night is out, Malachi Campbell has promised a tale the scholars think they have finished: Marco Polo’s.

On Venice’s canals, the first evening of spring sets the water aflame with sunset, and a wind from the Greek islands stirs the city like music. Marco Polo feels the call of life beyond his duties and his family’s legacy, while the vision of Golden Bells gives his longing for beauty a face. Between the world he knows and the vast one calling him, what will Marco choose—and what might he find when he answers the call?

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