Voyager from Xanadu Rabban Sauma and the First Journey from China to the West
Toward the end of the 13th century, at about the time Marco Polo was being received by the great Khubilai Khan, a Nestorian Christian monk from China called Rabban Sauma was making the reverse journey from the Mongol capital to Jerusalem. This book traces
Toward the end of the 13th century, at about the time Marco Polo was being received by the great Khubilai Khan, a Nestorian Christian monk from China called Rabban Sauma was making the reverse journey from the Mongol capital to Jerusalem. This book traces Sauma's trans-Eurasian travels against the era of the Mongol Empire and the last Crusades.
