Cartography Back in 2008, while she was a Phd student in Cambridge, Rachel Leow
charted the whole of Marco Polo's journey on Google Maps ...
"I am reading my slow, marvellous way through the Yule-Cordier edition of The Travels of Marco Polo, armed with Google Maps, Google Images, Wikipedia and the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. It is stirring up an insatiable storm of Wanderlust, and so to expiate my guilt at not PhD-ing, I am sharing my vicarious armchair travelling. Marker by annotated marker, I’m filling in a map of Marco Polo’s cities and travels..."
In the meantime, the project seems to have been completed and is heavily annotated with quotes from the journal and modern orientation.
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