Odoric of Pordenone is remembered for reaching places that the written record had not yet described.
The record lists Odoric of Pordenone as 14th-century Italian Franciscan friar, missionary, and explorer.
Odoric of Pordenone was born at Pordenone in 1286. His recorded nationality is Republic of Venice.
This was the great age of overland travel: Arab geographers, Chinese Buddhist pilgrims and Norse seafarers each reached further than Europe knew.
He is recorded as explorer, writer and missionary.
What an expedition is remembered for is rarely what it set out to do.
Odoric of Pordenone died in 1331, aged 45. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as explorer, writer and missionary
