
William of Rubruck: the french monk who reached mongolia before Marco Polo
William of Rubruck: the french explorer who beat Marco Polo to the mongol empire When we think of medieval European explorers journeying to the Far East, one name invariably comes to mind: Marco Polo. His tales of Xanadu and the court of Kublai Khan have fired the imagination for centuries. But what if we told you that decades before Polo’s




