Polo!
Yes, in this episode, I’m starting with Marco Polo. There’s not a lot of people who I have looked at over the course of this podcast where I say, ‘Man, I would have liked to have had his life,’ but Marco Polo is someone whose life sounds pretty awesome. Not free of hardship, but whose life is? Anyway, his life was pretty epic. Also, he seems like a pretty good guy, despite being hard to find in a pool.
Image of Marco Polo, from the 1600’s
Another image of Marco, holding his book, Il Milione
Marco Polo’s travels across Europe and Asia
A page from a manuscript (hand-written) copy of Marco Polo’s book. Pretty amazing handwriting, don’t you think?