Premodern Travel in World History - Stephen Spencer Gosch, Peter N. Stearns - Google Books

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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…