The Travels of Marco Polo · Character
Major St. John
Also known as St. John, O. St. John, the late Sir O. St. John
- Minor
- First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 40
Major St. John is a minor character in The Travels of Marco Polo (Book 1).
- Gender
- male
- Age
- Unknown
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 40
- Books
- 1
Major St. John is cited as an informant on the trade in goshawks and as a British military officer and writer. His observations also include a journey surveying the route from Kerman toward Deh Bakri, which he found desolate and dreary. The book records these contributions without giving him a personal storyline, relationships, or transformation.
Description
No physical description of St. John is preserved in the text. He is identified as a British military officer and writer, and a traveler who surveyed a stretch of road in Persia, but his height, build, coloring, hair, eyes, face, and clothing are not specified. A portrait should remain a generic, historically plausible officer-traveler, with no invented distinguishing marks.
Story so far
BOOK 1The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1
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