Too many topics, too little time

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.

[From indulgence & sin « a historian’s craft]

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here is a historian who has produced/is producing a great map of marco polo’s journeys on google maps. It demonstrates what can be done with a bit of effort.