description: Challenging Marco Polo's status as "first" to enter China, this journal of a scholarly Jewish merchant who sailed into Zaitun four years before the arrival of Polo describes the adventures of a medieval trader and adds another fascinating chapter to the classic encounter between East and West.
language: English
title: The City of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo
titlecomplete: The City of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo
genres: Asia, Nonfiction, China, Travel, History
ratings_count: 62
publisher: Birch Lane Pr