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In 1851, a three-masted clipper built in Saint John, New Brunswick also took his name; the Marco Polo was the first ship to sail around the world in under six months. [154] The airport in Venice is named Venice Marco Polo Airport. [155] The frequent flyer programme of Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific is known as the "Marco Polo Club". [156]
Larner, John (1999), Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World, New Haven: Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-07971-0. Olschki, Leonardo (1960), Marco Polo's Asia: An Introduction to His "Description of the World" Called "Il Milione", translated by John A. Scott, Berkeley: University of California Press, OCLC 397577.
One of his most successful publications was his edited version of The Travels of Marco Polo, first published in 1926. [1] He not only added a chapter which was missing in the William Marsden translation, but also revised parts of the Henry Yule editions.
A map may prove that Marco Polo discovered America more than two centuries before Christopher Columbus. A sheepskin map, believed to be a copy of the 13th century Italian explorer's, may indicate ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; ... Cultural depictions of Marco Polo (1 C, 16 P)
Max Mara pays sumptuous homage to the original merchant of Venice
A single copy of the map survives, presently housed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Waldseemüller also created globe gores, printed maps designed to be cut out and pasted onto spheres to form globes of the Earth. The wall map, and his globe gores of the same date, depict the American continents in two pieces.
Denis Belliveau is an American photographer, author and explorer notable for retracing Marco Polo's route from Europe to Asia and back, a feat which culminated in the publication of the documentary and book titled In the Footsteps of Marco Polo; [2] the documentary has been used by Belliveau to create a unique interdisciplinary educational curriculum that he presents at schools and libraries ...