Marco Polo
Marco Polo
Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant traveller whose travels are recorded in Livres des merveilles du monde, a book that introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth15 September 1254
CountryItaly
writing saws half
I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed
saws half polo
I have not told the half of what I saw.
gear shirts ton
Getting all of our gear was pretty cool. We got 20 shirts and just a ton of stuff.
city
It's a city that just has to be discovered,
few kids people
At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.
I have not told half of what I saw.
country lying men
To the north of Armenia lies Zorzania Georgia, near the confines of which there is a fountain of oil which discharges so great a quantity as to furnish loading for many camels. The use made of it is not for the purpose of food, but as an unguent for the cure of cutaneous distempers in men and cattle, as well as other complaints, and it is also good for burning. In the surrounding country no other oil is used in their lamps, and people come from distant parts to procure it.
men nuts meals
One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.
christian book believe
I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as Messer Marco, son of Messer Niccolo Polo, great and noble citizen of the city of Venice.
heart breathe polo
My heart beats as much as I can breathe.
christian kings together
If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, - aye, and throw in the Saracens to boot, - would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world.
historical arches stones
Without stones there is no arch
voice ears stories
I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
law done doe
The law which their prophet Mohamed has given to muslims is that any harm done to any one who does not accept their law and any appropriation of his goods, is no sin at all.