Maffeo Polo

Maffeo Polo was a Venetian merchant and the brother of Niccolò Polo. The brothers travelled through the Mongol world, reached the court of Kublai Khan and later returned east with Niccolò’s son Marco, forming the family journey described in the Travels of Marco Polo.

Gary Jennings’s The Journeyer places Maffeo Polo within a narrative shaped by exploration, travel and cultural encounter, court politics and dynastic power, and political ambition and government.