Other routes : 1500 years of African and Asian travel writing / edited by Tabish Khair ... [et al.].

Includes index.

African and Asian travel texts in the light of Europe : an introduction / Tabish Khair -- Pilgrimages -- Three Chinese scholars go "west" to India (fifth-seventh century) -- The travels of a Japanese Monk (c. 838) -- The pillow book of Sei Shonagon (c. 990) -- The Haj and other journeys of ibn Jubayr (b. 1145) -- The pilgrimages of lady Nijo (b. 1271) -- Studies -- Al-Buruni's defence of Hindu India (1030 A.D.) -- The horizons of al-Idrisi in the eleventh century -- Two Chinese accounts of the early Mongols (1221 and 1237) -- A Chinese account of the lost City of Angkor (1297) -- Navigating with ibn Majid (floreat 1460) -- Piri Reis : the voyages of a "Corsair" (c. 1526) -- The ambivalence of Leo Africanus (1526) -- Autobiographies, diaries & memoirs -- The memoirs of a Syrian Prince-polymath (b. 1273) -- The accidental travels of a Korean official (1488) -- The travel memoirs of Babur (b. 1482) -- The European diaries of Uruch Beg (b. 1560) -- The travel diaries of Xu Xiake (1623) -- Equiano's voyage to slavery and freedom (1789) -- Dean Mahomed writes from the centre (c. 1793) -- African Muslim slave narratives of the nineteenth century -- The diary of Queen Emma of Hawaii (b. 1836) -- The Shah of Iran in European corridors (1873) -- An African-Arab princess in Europe (1881) -- Travel accounts -- A merchant of Baghdad reports on a Viking funeral (A.D. 922) -- Al-Abdari, the disgruntled traveller (c. 1290) -- Ibn Battuta, world traveller (b. 1304) -- An Arab Cleric in South America (1668-83) -- The poetry of Basho's road (1689) -- Mirza I'tesamuddin's wonders of Vilayet (1765) -- An Indian Aristocrat in Africa and Europe (1803) -- Al-Amraoui : Moroccan Ambassador to Europe (1860) -- Blyden : a pan-Africanist's voyage to Palestine (1873) -- Malabari : a love-hate affair with the British (1890).

Translated into English from multiple languages.