Polo's travels took him across such a diverse human landscape and his accounts of the peoples he met as he journeyed were so detailed that they earned for Polo the name " the father of modern anthropology.

* Elma MacGibbons reminiscences about her travels in the United States starting in 1898, which were mainly in Oregon and Washington.

These were partly the result of the tireless travels he had begun in 1839 in search of unread manuscripts of the New Testament, " to clear up in this way ," he wrote, " the history of the sacred text, and to recover if possible the genuine apostolic text which is the foundation of our faith.

Eusebius got his information about what texts were accepted by the third-century churches throughout the known world, a great deal of which Origen knew of firsthand from his extensive travels, from the library and writings of Origen.

The precise date of Francisco Álvares death, like that of his birth, is unknown, but the writer of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article concludes it was later than 1540, in which year an account of his travels were published at Lisbon.

(, ), or simply Ibn Battuta (), also known as Shams ad-Din ( February 25, 1304 – 1368 or 1369 ), was a Berber Muslim Moroccan explorer, known for his extensive travels, accounts of which were published in the Rihla ( lit.

According to church materials, his travels were funded by his " wealthy grandfather ".

Music journalist Chris Welch argues that " Zeppelin's travels spawned many stories, but it was a myth that were constantly engaged in acts of wanton destruction and lewd behaviour ".

These studies were recorded in 13, 000 pages of notes and drawings, which fuse art and natural philosophy ( the forerunner of modern science ), made and maintained daily throughout Leonardo's life and travels, as he made continual observations of the world around him.

Eusebius got his information about what texts were then accepted and what were then disputed, by the third-century churches throughout the known world, a great deal of which Origen knew of firsthand from his extensive travels, from the library and writings of Origen.

Their accomplishments defying the odds were some of the most inspiring of ancient Greek athletics and they served as inspiration to the Hellenic world for centuries, as Pausanias, the ancient traveller and writer indicates when he re-tells these stories in his narrative of his travels around Greece.

Although there are many legends about his travels, Rashi likely never went further than from the Seine to the Rhine ; the utmost limit of his travels were the yeshivas of Lorraine.

Freedom of press was expanded, university autonomy recognised, and restrictions on overseas travels were lifted.

After his travels, Sima was chosen to be a Palace Attendant in the government, whose duties were to inspect different parts of the country with Emperor Han Wudi.

His own contribution to the reinvention of Scottish culture was enormous, even though his re-creations of the customs of the Highlands were fanciful at times, his extensive travels around his native country, notwithstanding.

At some point in his travels, Themistocles's wife and children were extricated from Athens by a friend, and joined him in exile.

These travels explain as well how the vinviðir ( wine wood ) the Norse were cutting down in the sagas is actually referring to the vines of Vitis riparia a species of wild grape that grows on trees.

Maugham said that many of his short stories were inspired by accounts he heard during his travels in the outposts of the Empire.

For example, Ulrich Jasper Seetzen noted during his travels in Ottoman Syria in 1808-09 that 150 persons were employed in the glass industry in Hebron, while later, in 1844, Robert Sears wrote that Hebron's population of 400 Arab families " manufactured glass lamps, which are exported to Egypt.

The Archbishop decided that the constant travels between Wroclaw and Salzburg were inappropriate for a child, and, in 1267, sent Henry to Prague to be raised at the court of King Ottokar II of Bohemia.

His travels were soon interrupted by the war, but his ideas continued to receive attention in England primarily through the efforts of Constance Long.

After 1938, his travels were confined to Europe.

In India travels in the sixteenth century there were also used carracks, large merchant ships with a high edge and three masts with square sails, that reached 2000 tons.

In " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " he travels through city streets ; in " The Mystery of Marie Rogêt " he is in the wide outdoors ; in " The Purloined Letter " he is in an enclosed private space.

Later, during her travels, she would spend time meeting with a wide variety of diplomats and civic leaders and reiterating her Victorian belief in women's special mission to preserve peace.

One aspect which stands out in Islamic philosophy is that, the philosophy in Islam travels wide but comes back to conform it with the Quran and Sunna.

His role as papal legate to the German lands included wide travels.

His son Béla became known for wide travels and explorations in the East Indies, Japan, China, Java, Borneo, western Mongolia, and the frontiers of Tibet.

The highway is two lanes wide and travels over and between the surface features of the Canadian Shield ; further west into Manitoba the highway widens into a four lane divided expressway.

In " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ", he travels through city streets ; in " The Mystery of Marie Rogêt ", he is in the wide outdoors ; in " The Purloined Letter ", he is in an enclosed private space.

The majority of her writing, which comprised books as well as articles for newspapers and such journals as Walkabout, resulted from her wide travels across Australia.

Other characters treat him as a worldly young adult, as shown by the absence of concerns like parents or school, as well as by his wide solo travels all over the globe.

Clüver was an antiquary, who was given a special appointment at Leiden as geographer and put in charge of the university's library, but his life's project, it developed, was a general study of the geography of Antiquity, based not only on classical literary sources, but — and this was his contribution — supplemented by wide travels and local inspections.

His travels have provided a wide range of material for his work ; his fifth collection Days That We Couldn ’ t Rehearse contains poems set in Paris, Transylvania, the Upper Volga, Uzbekistan and Sarajevo.

After attending The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, he traveled for over four years in Europe and throughout the U. S. A. His travels led to innovative ways of supporting this passion for adventure, such as hair-wrapping and jewelry-making, thereby exposing him to a wide range of people and places.

View from the Artist's Window, painting by a young Rørbye around 1825, heralding the many travels he would later make with its depiction of a caged bird in an open window, on the border between the safety of his parents ' home and the wide, unknown world represented by a berthed ship

His extensive travels and wide interests ( notwithstanding the fact that his style had fully developed before the " psychedelic era ") are further support of his claims.

A pathway, Ridge Trail, travels along the top of the wide valley from High Rocks and goes south into Tohickon Valley County Park towards Point Pleasant.

As one travels down to the dam from the main road and ventures along the wide stop wall of the dam, rainy season fountains and small waterfalls add to the beauty of this part.

During the second part, the reason for his travels is revealed: the hitchhiker has been filming his extended family to bring home to his blind mother ( Jeanne Moreau ).

Years later, and moments before his death, Gull has an extended mystical experience, where his spirit travels through time, observing the crimes of the London Monster, instigating or inspiring a number of other killers ( Peter Sutcliffe, Ian Brady ), causing Netley's death, as well as serving as the inspiration for both Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and William Blake's painting " The Ghost of a Flea ".

* Neil Gaiman has extended this story in his comic book series 1602, where a Native American named Rojhaz meets Virginia Dare when she is about twelve, and an artifact of his travels causes her to transform into a series of white creatures whenever she is in danger.

* The alchemical connection also occurs in the German playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's rendition of Faust, Part 2, which has that famed sorcerer's former student Wagner create a homunculus, who then carries out extended conversations with Mephistopheles as well as travels with him to the Pharsalian Fields to save Faust.

Pausanias was probably a native of Lydia ; he was certainly familiar with the western coast of Asia Minor, but his travels extended far beyond the limits of Ionia.

Enterprise is unable to maintain its top speed of warp 5 for an extended period of time and normally travels at warp 4. 5.

After the Civil War ended in 1865 Jewell returned to Europe and extended his travels to Egypt and the Holy Land.

The line travels though the northern suburbs of Melbourne, and once extended to the country town of Whittlesea.

From Berlin, Bishop Simpson extended his travels through Turkey, the Holy Land, Egypt, and Greece, returning to the United States in 1858.

Stair's association with the English judges at this time must have enlarged his acquaintance with English law, as his travels had extended his knowledge of the civil law and the modern European systems which followed it.

After 1843 Hildebrandt, under the influence of Humboldt, extended his travels, and in 1864-1865 he went round the world.

Many of his watercolours have been made in London and Suffolk and around Britain, on extended travels in France, Italy and India, and during briefer spells in South Carolina, East Africa, the Pacific and Brazil.

At first, it seemed that the exile would just be for a few months, thanks to the family connections of Duchess Agnes ; however, the hurried and insufficiently prepared expedition failed to cross the Oder River ), and finally failed because of the strong opposition of the former Władysław II's subjects and the problems of Conrad III in Germany caused by his extended travels.

Pauline's regular travels between, and extended stays in, Paris and Vienna, permitted her to act as a cross-cultural transmitter of the many trends that interested her in music, political ideas, and sport.

" The story next turns to Bruce's foreign travels, one extended scene depicts Bruce's time training at a monastery, hidden in a mountainous region of Korea.

The frame of the show hunter differs from that of dressage horses, eventers, and show jumpers, as it travels in a long and low frame, with its head moderately extended.

Hadrian, famous for his long and extensive travels throughout the empire that helped to consolidate his own power and exhibit the strength of the Emperor, realized that he needed a reliable representative in Rome, so he could continue his extended travels in the Empire.