Can you please reccomend me some descriptions written by travelers

>>2280509
Marco Polo

File: Ibn Hawqal Map (c. 977 AD).png (931KB, 920x946px) Image search: [Google]

931KB, 920x946px

Here are some Muslim ones.

Ibn Fadlan's Risala, describing the Rus Vikings and other northern peoples, from 922 AD
>www.indiana.edu/~cahist/Readings/2011Spring/Risala%20of%20Ibn%20Fadlan.doc

al-Biruni's description of India, from 1030 AD
>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/texts/ldpd_5949073_001/

Juvaini's history of the Mongol conquest of Iran, from 1260 AD
>http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0010/001086/108630Eb.pdf

Ibn Battuta's Rihla, with descriptions of the Islamic world from Morocco to China and from Central Asia to the Swahili Coast, 1325-1354 AD
>http://englishattheuniversity.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/5/3/10532852/ibn_battutas_travels.pdf

A number of early medieval non-Muslim descriptions of Muslims
>https://archive.org/details/SeeingIslamAsOthersSawItASurveyAndEvaluationOfChristianJewishAndZoroastrianWritingsOnEarlyIslam

Medieval Islamic and Chinese conceptions of one another
>http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/academy/pdf/research/books/cultural_exchange/Mapping_the_Chinese_and_Islamic_Worlds_-_Cross-Cultural_Exchange_in_Pre-Modern_Asia.pdf

>>2280678
And a few others

Giraldus Cambrensis' Topographia Hibernica, describing Ireland around 1188
>http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/topography_ireland.pdf

And his description of the Norman conquest
>http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/conquest_ireland.pdf

Marco Polo's Travels through Asia, published c. 1300
>https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Travels_of_Marco_Polo

A short Russian account of a journey to India, 1466-1472
>http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/nikitin_wielhorsky.pdf

>>2280523
>>2280678
thx

>>2280509

Bernal Diaz Del Castillo's memoir The True history of the Conquest of New Spain is excellent. Written about the conquest of the Aztecs.

>>2280509
Johan Schiltberger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Schiltberger
End of the 14th century, incredible life story, rode with Timur and the Golden Horde and was a slave to the Turks.

I can't find an English translation of this online, but it seems interesting; a 13th century Chinese account of Angkorian Cambodia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Customs_of_Cambodia

>>2280509
I remember there was some theological debate (well, not really a debate but more of a conversation) between some friars or monks and some buddhists. It was posted here a while ago, maybe some can help
also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_da_Pian_del_Carpine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Rubruck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odoric_of_Pordenone