Rabban Bar Sauma, the "Reverse Marco Polo," Travels from Beijing to Bourdeaux
Overview
One could call Rabban Bar Sauma a "reverse Marco Polo": whereas Polo traveled from We...
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Rabban Bar Sauma
c.1220-1294
Chinese Nestorian Monk and Explorer
In the late 1280s, a Nestorian Christian monk named Rabban Bar Sauma took the opposite route of many of his contemporary explorers by v...
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Rabban Bar Sauma
Born c. 1220, Peking, China Died c. 1294, Baghdad, present-day Iraq
Much is known about medieval travelers, such as Venetian Marco Polo (see entry), who journeyed from Europe to Asia...
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Rabban Bar Sauma, the "Reverse Marco Polo," Travels from Beijing to Bourdeaux
Rabban Bar Sauma