Marco Polo
merchant · traveler · Venice · 1254–1324
A merchant who left Venice with his father at seventeen and came back twenty-four years later. By his own account he served at the court of Kublai Khan of the Yuan.
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c. 1298 · The opening of the book he dictated to a writer imprisoned with him in Genoa
Great Princes, Emperors, and Kings, Dukes and Marquises, Counts, Knights, and Burgesses! and People of all degrees who desire to get knowledge of the various races of mankind and of the diversities of the sundry regions of the World, take this Book and cause it to be read to you.The Travels of Marco Polo, prologue · in place of the original: the English translation by Henry Yule (1871)
1 in 100 Billion · The social network of those who came before us