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We have lived with seabirds for at least 300,000 years. From the beginning our view of them has been double, as creatures that are both deeply distant and yet strangely connected to us, both oceanic in what they represent and a mirror of what we are. They stand in for our relationship with nature as a whole. We use them and love them, nurture them and destroy them, revere them and make toys and hats and dinner out of them. It is a pattern that has evolved over history, and our relationship with seabirds has moved through these phases like steps in a game of hopscotch.

Nacido en el año 1254, veneciano de corazón, este notable explorador italiano ha pasado a la historia por ser uno de los primeros hombres que llegó a China, país del que aprendió su arte, idioma, y difusión por sus notables avances culturales. Su libro, Las Aventuras de Marco Polo, causó admiración en la Europa del siglo XIII, al extremo de considerarlo un hombre bendecido por la suerte y a admiración.