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Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE: From 200 to 1500
St. Clement of Alexandria (d. 215 CE)
St. Jerome (ca. 347–420)
Socrates of Constantinople (b. ca. 380)
Anonymous (ninth century)
St. Euthymius of Mount Athos (ca. 955–1028)
King Het‘um I of Armenia (1215–1270)
Marco Polo (ca. 1254–1324)
Rashīd al-Dīn (1247–1318)
Odoric of Pordenone (1286?–1331)
CHAPTER TWO: From 1501 to 1600
Anjirō (1511–1550?)
St. Francis Xavier (1506–1552)
Guillaume Postel (1510–1581)
Martín de Rada (1533–1578)
Bernardino de Escalante (ca. 1537 to after 1605)
Juan Gonzáles de Mendoza (ca. 1540–1617)
William Adams (1564–1620)
Cesar Fredericke
CHAPTER THREE: From 1601 to 1700
Matteo Ricci (1552–1610)
Samuel Purchas (1577?–1626)
Nicolas Trigault (1577–1628)
Roberto de Nobili (1577–1656)
Richard Cocks (1566–1624)
Cristoforo Borri (1583–1632)
Álvaro Semedo (1585–1658)
Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680)
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605–1689)
Robert Knox (1641–1720)
Abbé de Choisy (1644–1724)
Alexandre, Chevalier de Chaumont (1640–1710)
Fernaõ de Queyroz (1617–1688)
Tomás Pereira (1645–1708)
Guy Tachard (1651–1712)
Nicolas Gervaise (ca. 1662–1729)
Simon de la Loubère (1642–1729)
Louis le Comte (1655–1728)
Engelbert Kaempfer (1651–1716)
CHAPTER FOUR: From 1701 to 1800
Ippolito Desideri (1684–1733)
François Valentijn (1666–1727)
Jean Frédéric Bernard (1683–1744) and Bernard Picart (1673–1733)
Jean Baptiste du Halde (1674–1743)
Adriano di St. Thecla (1667–1765)
Antonio Agostino Giorgi (1711–1797)
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) and Jean le Rond d’Alembert (1717–1783)
Voltaire (1694–1778)
Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811)
Guillaume le Gentil (1725–1792)
William Hurd
Jean-Baptiste Grosier (1743–1823)
Sir William Jones (1746–1794)
Thomas Maurice (1754–1824)
Louis-Mathieu Langlès (1763–1824)
Paulinus a S. Bartholomaeo (1748–1806)
Francis Wilford (1761–1822)
Colin Mackenzie (1753–1821)
Captain Mahony
Michael Symes (1761–1809)
Vincenzo Sangermano (d. 1819)
CHAPTER FIVE: From 1801 to 1844
Joseph Endelin de Joinville
Francis Hamilton (1762–1829)
Alexander Hamilton (1762–1824)
Edward Moor (1771–1848)
Francis Wilford (1761–1822)
William Erskine (1773–1852)
George Stanley Faber (1773–1854)
Michel-Jean François Ozeray (1764–1859)
Robert Fellowes (1770–1847)
Francis (Hamilton) Buchanan (1762–1829)
R. N. Golownin (1776–1831)
John Crawfurd (1783–1868)
John Davy (1790–1868)
Julius Heinrich Klaproth (1783–1835)
Thomas Abercrombie Trant (1805–1832)
Samuel Davis (1760–1819)
Horace Hayman Wilson (1786–1860)
Karl Friedrich Neumann (1793–1870)
Charles Coleman
Edward Upham (1776–1834)
Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788–1832)
George Turnour (1799–1843)
Alexander Csoma de Kőrös (1784–1842)
Eugène Burnouf (1801–1852)
Notes
Footnotes
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