Summary: The three Polos depart for the summer palace of Kublai Khan. There'll be Assassins, baked corpses, and papal elections along the way! Website: humancircuspodcast.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/circus_human Email: HumanCircusPod@gmail.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/humancircuspod/ Donate to the podcast: https://ko-fi.com/A7071B1K Sources: - The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian, translated by Willam Marsden, edited by Thomas Wright. George Bell & Sons, 1907. - The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck, translated by Peter Jackson. The Hakluyt Society, 1990. - Cathay and the Way Thither, Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China, Vol. III, translated and edited by Henry Yule and Henri Cordier. London, 1916. - Ackroyd, Peter. Venice: Pure City. Chatto & Windus, 2009. - Daftary, Farhad. The Assassin Legends. I. B. Tauris, 1994. - Larner, John. Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World. Yale University Press, 1999. - Madden, Thomas F. Venice: A New History. Viking, 2012. - Olschki, Leonardo. Marco Polo's Asia. University of California Press, 1960. - Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman. Chinese Imperial City Planning. University of Hawaii Press, 1999. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
