Marco Polo Journey - The Book That Launched a Thousand Ships: How a Prison Cell Manuscript Ignited the Age of Exploration

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Marco Polo Journey - The Book That Launched a Thousand Ships: How a Prison Cell Manuscript Ignited the Age of Exploration

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Griffin Rowe examines how Marco Polo's manuscript, dictated to Rustichello da Pisa in a Genoese prison around 1298, reshaped European understanding of Asia and inspired Columbus. The episode explores how this imperfect translation became the mythological engine driving the Age of Exploration.

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