Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu

I've just finished reading Laurence Bergreen's and was totally absorbed by it.

A couple of interesting things
- Pharmacists (and by nature the retail pharmacy setting) have always been competitive all the way back to Marco Polo's time

- Thought he only mentions the island of Socotra in passing, this piqued my interest to do more research about it. This is one of the places that I must visit before my time is up.

Dragon's Blood Trees, so called for the red sap they secrete, photo by Mark W. Moffett, National Geographic