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The Explorers Podcast

Marco Polo - Part 5 - The Voyage Home

The Explorers Podcast

Matt Breen

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In our final episode on explorer Marco Polo, we take the Venetian merchant on one last mission for Kublai Khan. Marco - along with his father and uncle - were tasked with escorting a princess to Persia. The resulting mission will take the Polos - by ship - to Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, and - finally - home. It will complete an epic 24 year, 15,000+ mile journey.  Map: https://explorerspodcast.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/map-home.png Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an airwave media podcast.

0:06.0

Have you ever gazed in wonder at the Great Pyramid?

0:10.0

Have you marveled at the golden face of Tudankamun, or admired the delicate features of Queen Nethartiti.

0:18.0

If you have, you'll probably like The History of Egypt Podcast. Every you get your podcasting fix.

0:30.0

Come, let me introduce you to the world of ancient Egypt.

0:37.0

Hi, I'm Matt Albers, host of the Pirate History Podcast.

0:45.0

The men and women of the Golden Age of Piracy are some of the most infamous and often

0:51.0

misunderstood characters in all of human history.

0:54.2

You know their names.

0:56.2

Anne Bonnie, Henry Avery, Mary Reed, Captain Kidd, Blackbeard.

1:00.8

But do you know their stories, their real stories? Every week over on the Pirate

1:07.4

History Podcast, we examine what made these pirates sail the high seas in search of plunder and adventure and revenge.

1:16.4

If you'd like to hear the stories of the real men and women who went on the account and sailed

1:20.6

under the Black Flag, join us on the Pirate History Podcast.

1:25.0

Hello, this is Matt from the Explorers Podcast.

1:30.0

I want to start today by sharing with you a trailer for a history podcast called Human Circus, Journeys in the Medieval World by Devon Field.

1:38.0

I normally don't do this two weeks in a row, but this podcast is relevant to our current series, so I decided to do so.

1:45.0

Human Circus is about travelers in the medieval world, just as it says.

1:49.0

And that means we get all sorts of great stories that are not so different from what we do on the

1:53.2

Explorer's podcast. This includes Devon's own take on Marco Polo. And since this is

1:58.5

our final Marco Polo episode, I thought it appropriate to share it with you at this time.

2:02.4

So here you go, Human Circus

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