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
St. John is felt as a seasoned observer whose reports give texture to distant places and unfamiliar trades. His brief appearances carry the authority of someone who has travelled widely, though the account leaves the man himself largely out of view.
- 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
Appearances
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