General
Old World Contacts: A University of Calgary tutorial that highlights a number of travelers of Eurasian and African History between 330 BCE and 1500 CE.
Marco Polo
Marco Polo (c. 1254-1324),
Historic Figures:
A very brief overview from BBC History.
Marco Polo And His Travels: A short biography from the Silk Road Foundation.
The Marco Polo Odyssey: An on-line feature from National Geographic.
Marco Polo
-- Wikipedia:
An entry from the on-line encyclopedia.
Travels Of Marco Polo, Volume I -- Project Gutenberg:
Travels Of Marco Polo, Volume II -- Project Gutenberg:
Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta
-- Wikipedia:
An entry from the on-line encyclopedia.
Ibn Battuta (1304-1378?): A brief biography from a school-related site.
Journey To Mecca -- In The Footsteps Of Ibn Battuta: The companion web-site for a 2008 documentary.
Medieval Sourcebook -- Ibn Battuta -- Travels In Asia And Africa, 1325-1354: A sampling of Battuta's account courtesy of Fordham University's Internet History Sourcebooks Project.
Zheng He
China's Great Armada:
A 2005 National Geographic feature.
Great Chinese Mariner Zheng He: Includes a number of links at the bottom of the page.
Mystery Of Zheng He And America: A web-site from chemist Dr. Siu-Leung Lee that holds up a medal artifact as further support for the Chinese-reached-America theory.
Zheng He -- The Chinese Muslim Admiral: A concise overview from Muslim Heritage.
Zheng He --
Wikipedia: An
entry from the on-line encyclopedia.