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Departure of Odoric of Pordenone
Franciscan Friar Odoric traveled in the East in about 1316-1329 CE, visiting Persepolis and Baghdad on his way to China, and living in China for three years. Like Marco Polo’s earlier writings, Odoric’s widely read accounts of his travels became an important source of knowledge that shaped Western ideas, but also Western fantasies, about the East.
Carsten Niehbuhr, Explorer, in Native Dress (Carsten Niebuhr opdagelsesrejsende)
Name: Departure of Odoric of Pordenone
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Date: 14th century CE
Place of Origin: “Romance and Travels,” Reproduction in “Ghengis Khan et l’Empire Mongol,” Jean-Paul Roux
Location: Unknown
Source and Registration#: Wikimedia Commons. Link to resource
(accessed August 17, 2009).
Matthew W. Stolper
Professor of Assyriology and the John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies
