Explorers of Asia
For early exploration, see the following pages:
General
- European contacts with Japan in the 16th and 17th century.
The Dutch
- Jan Huyghen van Linschoten
- Frederick Houtman
- Discovery of the Houtman Abrolhos
- alternative site
- Jacques Mahu & Simon de Cordes
- Jacob Quackernaeck and the first Dutch voyage to Japan (in Dutch)
- The Voyage of 'de Liefde'
- Olivier van Noort (in Dutch)
- alternative site (in German)
- Hendrik Brouwer
- Joris van Spilbergen (in German)
- Tranquebar and the Danish East India Company
- The Dutch on Formosa
- Hendrik Hamel and the Dutch interest in Korea
- 400 years Japan and the Netherlands
- Travels of the Dutch East India Company in the Japanese Archipelago (German version)
- Matthijs Quast
The English in the Indies
- Ralph Fitch
- William Adams
- James Lancaster
The Jesuits
- Saint Franciscus Xavier
- alternative site
- alternative site
- The Jesuits in China
- Matteo Ricci
- Mapping "All Under Heaven" - the Jesuits and Chinese cartography
- Antonio de Andrade
Russia and Siberia
- Russian naval officers and geographic exploration of northern Russia (18th to 20th centuries)
- Richard Chancellor
- Olivier Brunel
- Semen Ivanov Dezhnev
- Bering, Chirikov: see Russian America
Arabia
- Ludovico di Varthema
- Carsten Niebuhr
- William Gifford Palgrave
- preface to his narrative
- Palgrave family chronology
- Sir Richard Francis Burton
- Gertrude Bell
- The Gertrude Bell Project - archiving all of Bell's diaries, letters and photographs
Central Asia and Tibet
- Evarist Huc and Joseph Gabet
- alternative site
- Ferdinand von Richthofen (in German)
- The Pundits
- including: Nain Singh, Hari Ram, Krishna Singh, Kinthup
- Nikolai Przhevalski
- Agvan Dorjiev
- Sven Anders Hedin
- exhibition in the German museum (in German)
- picture
- Alexandra David-Néel
- real-audio interview with Barbara and Michael Foster, who wrote a biography of David-Neel
- Philips Christiaan Visser
- Edmund Hillary
- interview