Showing posts with label marco polo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marco polo. Show all posts

Thursday, April 21, 2016

brave new worlds


Christopher Columbus [1450-1506] set sail for the new world with a copy of Marco Polo's [1254-1324] Travels in his pocket.

Sunday, July 22, 2012


"Tamil Nadu is the most splendid province on earth [and is the world's last surviving classical civilization]."
- Marco Polo

Thursday, January 28, 2010

16 miles


According to Marco Polo, Kublai Khan walled off 16 miles of parkland at his summer estate Xanadu.