2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
British historical novelist who wrote the Emperor series (Julius Caesar) and the Conqueror series (Genghis Khan) — among the best-selling historical fiction writers — known for dramatic, accurate-in-spirit accounts of historical military campaigns.
Marco Polo's account (dictated to Rustichello da Pisa while in Genoese prison) of his travels through the Mongol Empire and China — the first detailed European account of East Asian civilization — which introduced the wealth of China, Persia, and the Mongol Empire to Western readers.