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Marco Polo, The Description of the World, trans. Sharon Kinoshita (Indianapolis, Ind., and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company Inc, 2016). xxxi + 238 pp.; 9 maps. ISBN 978-1-62466-436-6. $15.00. The enduring appeal of Marco Polo's Description of the World has assured its continued popularity with scholars and general readers alike. Since the last English translation was published twenty years ago, however, medievalists have become increasingly critical of the Eurocentric perspectives that have long dominated Western historical scholarship. Marco Polo's descriptions of the Mongol Empire are therefore particularly pertinent to this ongoing shift towards displacing the dominance of a...