This book features some of the greatest travellers in human
history - people who undertook long journeys to places they knew
little or nothing about. From Roman tourists, to the establishment
of the Silk Road; an epic trek round China and India in the seventh
century, to Marco Polo and through to the first speculations on
space travel, Premodern Travel in World History provides an
overview of long-distance travel in Afro-Eurasia from around 400BCE
to 1500.
This survey uses succinct accounts of the most epic journeys in
the premodern world as lenses through which to examine the
development of early travel, trade and cultural interchange between
China, central Asia, India and southeast Asia, while also
discussing themes such as the growth of empires and the spread of
world religions.
Complete with maps, this concise and interesting study analyzes
how travel pushed and shaped the boundaries of political,
geographical and cultural frontiers.
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