Marco Polo’s book, released at the start of the 14th century, also discussed Prester John several times. Polo claimed that around the year 1200, Genghis sought to marry one of Prester John’s ...

I like a good legend as well as the next person — unless that person is a little white dog — so when I came across one from almost a millennium ago I thought it was worth a 21st century… ...

Catherynne M. Valente, Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $14.99 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-59780-199-7 In 1165, a letter ostensibly written by the distant Christian king Prester John ...

Then Genghis traveled to Prester John’s lands with an army and killed him. Many believe the person Marco Polo referred to as Prester John was the ruler of the Keraites, a Mongol or Turkic tribe ...