Summer of the Marco Polo Facts
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in 1874 on Prince Edward Island—she was eight when the Marco Polo was shipwrecked in 1883.
- When her mother died, Lucy Maud was one year old. Her father moved to Western Canada, and she was raised by her grandparents on the island.
- In 1890, she moved to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, to live with her father—but she only stayed for one year.
- When she finished school, Lucy Maud worked as a schoolteacher for several years.
- After that, she started writing for newspapers, and then writing books.
- She published an essay about the Marco Polo in 1891, and a poem in 1892.
- Lucy Maud wrote twenty novels, twelve short story collections, and two books of poetry!
The Marco Polo
The Marco Polo was a three-masted wooden clipper ship, about 184 feet long (that's about 56 meters).
The ship traveled from England to Australia and back in 1852—that was the first ever round trip in less than six months.
There is a half-model of the Marco Polo at the Mariner's Museum in Virginia, USA.
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