. Consider the following passage:
“In the course of a career on the road spanning almost
thirty years, he crossed the breadth of the Eastern
hemisphere, visited territories equivalent to about 44
modern countries, and put behind him a total distance of
approximately 73,000 miles”.
The world’s greatest traveler of pre-modern times to whom
the above passage refers is
(a) Megasthenes
(b) Fa Hien
(c) Marco Polo
(d) Ibn Battuta
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