premise: Marco Polo chronicled his experience of traveling to China.
hypothesis: Marco Polo . His travels are recorded in Livres des merveilles du monde ( Book of the Marvels of the World , also known as The Travels of Marco Polo , c. 1300 ) , a book that described to Europeans the wealth and great size of China , its capital Peking , and other Asian cities and countries . Marco Polo was not the first European to reach China ( see Europeans in Medieval China ) , but he was the first to leave a detailed chronicle of his experience .