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 | Voyager from Xanadu: Rabban Sauma and the First Journey from China to the West by Morris Rossabi Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2010 ISBN-10: 0-520-26237-9 / 0520262379 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-26237-9 / 9780520262379 Toward the end of the thirteenth century, at about the time Marco Polo was being received by the great Khubilai Khan, a Nestorian Christian monk from China called Rabban Sauma was making the reverse journey from the Mongol capital (what is now Beijing) to Jerusalem. Upon reaching Baghdadthe first tr | |