Medieval travel writers

Jewish explorer and writer

10th century Arab writer and geographer

10th century Hispanic Jewish merchant

11th-century Japanese author

ninth-century Jewish merchant and traveller

report compiled by Giovanni da Pian del Carpine of his trip to the Mongol Empire

Bianji () was a Buddhist monk who lived in the Tang dynasty. A disciple of Xuanzang, he compiled the Great Tang Records on the Western Regions and translated Sanskrit sutras into Chinese. He was executed by Emperor Taizong for having an illicit affair with the emperor's daughter Princess Gaoyang.

ninth-century Frankish monk