From Kashgar to Xanadu in the Travels of Marco Polo

Amelia Carolina Sparavigna (1)

1 Polito - Politecnico di Torino = Polytechnic of Turin

In two previous papers (Philica, 2017, Articles 1097 and 1100), we investigated the travels of Marco Polo, using Google Earth and Wikimapia. We reconstructed the Polo's travel from Beijing to Xanadu and from Sheberghan to Kashgar. Here we continue the analysis of this travel from today Kashgar to Xanadu.

Mots clés: Satellite Images; Google Earth; Wikimapia; Marco Polo; Taklamakan; Southwest Xinjiang; Lop Desert; Xanadu; China

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Amelia Carolina Sparavigna. From Kashgar to Xanadu in the Travels of Marco Polo. 2020. ⟨hal-02563026⟩