Puteshestvennik - Dzhennings G.

His compatriots did not believe him. The Venetians believed that Marco Polo's exotic stories of distant journeys were an exaggeration, if not a complete lie. As he lay dying, the priest, relatives and friends gave him one last chance to repent of the crookedness, and Marco Polo replied, "I didn't tell half of what I saw."
This is the novel "Traveller" - to tell readers what remains untold Marco Polo, and, believe me, outlandish ness and adventure in the book of Gary Jennings more than even in the "non-books" of the great wanderer.