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Marco Polo Skeptic Has Her Say

Frances Wood, head of the Chinese collection at the British Library, seems almost too unassuming to have exposed a celebrated figure in Chinese history as a possible fake. She remains best known, however, for her book, Did Marco Polo Go to China?, which argued he didn't and that the Venetian merchant explorer's tales were in reality merely a second-hand travel guide.

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History
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Marco Polo