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| Zhang Qian (139-126 bc) | Mission to the West, a.k.a Chang K'ien |
| Fa-xian (394-414) | Records…, Gutenberg Project, ditto, excerpts to India |
| Procopius (550) | Introduction of Silk in Europe |
| Hsuan-tsang (620s) | Su-yu-ki, 'Records of the western Kingdoms', ditto |
| Radanites (847) | Jewish trade routes to the East |
| Benjamin of Tudela (1167) | Travels, critical edition |
| al-Athir (1220) | On the Mongol invasions |
| Marco Polo (1271-94) | Travels, esp sections 3.12-3.30 |
| Rabban Sauma (1278-1313) | Travels, ditto PDF |
| Odoric of Pordenone (1320s) | Biography |
| John Mandeville (1357/60) | Travels, ditto |
| Nicolo di Conti (1419-44) | Biography |
| Pegolotti (1340 c.)i | Merchant handbook |
| Nikitin (1468-74) | Diary PDF, ditto no footnotes, extract |
| Soncino (1497) | Letters, Milan ambassador |
| Vasco da Gama (1497) | Around Africa to India, 1497-1498 CE |
| Ludovic of Varthema (1503-09) | biography |
| Babur (1520s) | Babur-nama, autobiography |
| Muhammad Haidar (1546/47) | Tarikh-i Rashidi |
| Sidi Ali Reis (1557) | Mirat ul Memalik, i.e 'The Mirror of Countries' |
| Goes (1603) | Travels, North India through C. Asia to China, ditto? |
| Steel & Crowther (1615-1616) | Travels, India to Persia |
| Olearius (1535) | Travels in Persia, ambassador |
| Chardin (1673-77) | Travels in Persia |
| Bell (1719-1722) | A journey from St. Petersburgh to Pekin, extracts |
| Semenov (1856-57) | Travels in the Tien Shan, cont., extracts |
| Collins (1860) | A voyage down the Amoor, via 'New Search, enter title |
| Atkinson (1860) | The Upper and lower Amoor, extracts |
| Vambery (1868) | Sketches of Central Asia, extracts |
| Pozdneyev. (1892-93) | Mongolia and the Mongols, extracts |
| Olufsen (1898-99) | Through the Unknown Pamirs |
| Hedin (1905) | Trans-Himalayas, excerpts |
| Pahlen (1908-1909) | Mission to Turkestan |
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