{"product_id":"the-journeyer","title":"The Journeyer","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarco Polo was nicknamed \"Marco of the millions\" because his Venetian countrymen took the grandiose stories of his travels to be exaggerated  if not outright lies. As he lay dying  his priest  family  and friends offered him a last chance to confess his mendacity  and Marco  it is said  replied \"I have not told the half of what I saw and did.\"  Now  in his new novel The Journeyer  Gary Jennings has imagined the half that Marco left unsaid as even more elaborate and adventurous than the tall tales thought to be lies. From the palazzi and back streets of medieval Venice to the sumptuous court of Kublai Khan  from the perfumed sexuality of the Levant to the dangers and rigors of travel along the Silk Road  Marco meets all manner of people  survives all manner of danger  and  insatiably curious  becomes an almost compulsive collector of customs  languages and women.  In more than two decades of travel  Marco was variously a merchant  a warrior  a lover  a spy  even a tax collector - but always a journeyer  unflagging in his appetite for new experiences  regretting only what he missed. Here - recreated and reimagined with all the splendor  the love of adventure  the zest for the rare and curious that are Jenningss hallmarks - is the epic account  at once magnificent and delightful  of the greatest real-life adventurer in human history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44880100589621,"sku":"ByrdShop_0765323494","price":37.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780765323491.jpg?v=1770814895","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-journeyer","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}