Guillermo Sancho
@guillermo-sancho
Guillermo is a History graduate from Birkbeck, University of London, where he studied Modern, Early Modern, and Contemporary History. He wrote his dissertation on Whitehall and the Liberal; government from 1846 to 1852 and its intervention in the Great Irish Famine - Economic Policies, Ideology, and Cultural Change. Other subjects he specializes in are Imperial and Colonial processes and characteristics in the Modern Period; migratory movements of peoples and population transfers from Early Modernity to the Contemporary Period; Ethics from Enlightenment to Environmentalism; and Revolutionary Russia from 1891 to 1991.
Sir John Mandeville: A Medieval English World Traveler?
We know of Sir John Mandeville only through his Medieval piece of travel literature, but who was Mandeville? A traveler, a writer, or did he even exist at all?
Marco Polo: Renowned Merchant, Explorer & Travel Writer
Marco Polo was a great merchant; he discovered lands and peoples hitherto unknown to Europe, and he gifted the world with his written account of these places and cultures.
Mandeville & Marco Polo: Terra Incognita & World of the Imagination
Marco Polo made an indelible mark in the history of travel writing. He was not, however, the only traveler to the far corners of the world—a comparison with Mandeville.