This is the history of the World Podcast Illuminati Debrief. Hello everyone debrief not just for the alumnity.

Welcome to the History of the World Podcast The Illuminati debrief which is now a everyone debrief not just for the alumnati, but thank you for joining me and off the back of a very good episode, the Travels of Marco Polo. Very interesting story,

fascinating story, especially if you've not heard it before, to learn about all

the different things that came out of the works of Marco Polo,

written alongside Rusticello.

Of course while he was in that Genoese prison.

But also in order to access it, I mean I can't read Franco Italian. So I was dependent on a book written by a

geographer called Hugh Murray who used the book the

Travels of Marco Polo Il Millioni whatever you want to refer it as, and he almost republished it with his own opinions about the work.

And this was, now, Hugh Murray's no longer with us, in fact he died in 1846, so it was a long time ago,

so that's why he's no longer with us but he was doing his lifetime that this

re-publication of Marco Polo's work was was republished and I used this as a source for some of the materials especially

for the outbound journey I found it quite useful.

But apart from that, I normally rely on more modern and contemporary sources,

books that I've bought myself

One of the one of the good books that I own is the almost complete history of the world

75 incredible events from ancient times to today by Joseph

Cummings, James Ingalls and Barry Stone. And what they have written is a book that focuses on many aspects of history and

some of the themes I've actually decided to make my own episode on it off the back of what they've written in their books.

So it's quite an important book in my library and they focused on the travels of Marco Polo and a very well-written chapter in this book.

So I was thrilled to be able to refer to that.

And also as a backup as a triangulator, if you like, is the decay book Journey, an illustrated

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