He returned to Europe in 1291, where he immediately became involved in the family trading business. During this time, he also dictated many of his adventures to Rustichello da Pisa, a romance writer, who penned the book Il Milione (The Million), later traduced into English as "The travels of Marco Polo." Polo is sometimes mistakenly identified as the first Westerner to reach China, but he wasn't. In fact, many explorers before him visited the Khan's court. What makes him so memorable is the fact that he lived in China for enough time to learn its customs and experience everyday life first-hand.