LibGuides: Primary Sources: Exploration & Discovery: India & Asia

Online Sources: India & Asia

Southeast Asia Visions Collection
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"... is a collection of European travel accounts of pre-modern Southeast Asia from Cornell University Library's John M. Echols Collection. The site provides online access to more than 350 books and journal articles written in English and French. The works in the collection were selected for the quality of their first-hand observations and, together, provide a comprehensive representation of Southeast Asia. " Cornell University Library
Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian... vol I
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: concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East

A translation of the travel-log of Marco Polo
Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian... vol. II
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: concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East

A translation of the travel-log of Marco Polo

The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
Translated and edited by William Marsden ;re-edited by Thomas Wright ;introduction by John Masefield.
The Travels of Marco Polo; greatly amended and enlarged by Marco Polo
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
from valuable early manuscripts recently published by the French society of geography and in Italy by Count Baldelli Boni; with copious notes illustrating the routes and observations of the author, and comparing them with those of more recent travellers, by Hugh Murray.
The journey of William of Rubruck to the Eastern parts of the World by Willem van Ruysbroeck
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
1253-55, as narrated by himself, with two accounts of the earlier journey of John of Pian de Carpine. Tr. from the Latin and ed., with an introductory notice, by William Woodville Rockhill ...
Travels of Abbé Carré in India and the Near East, 1672 to 1674 by Carré, 17th cent.
Call Number: G 161 .H156 2d ser. no. 95-97
Translated from the manuscript journal of his travels in the India Office by Lady Fawcett and edited by Sir Charles Fawcett with the assistance of Sir Richard Burn.

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