ANTHONY J BARBIER-LOW; Parallel Journeys-EURASIAN HISTORY THROUGH TRAVELER'S EYES 400 BCE-1936 CE

This book deftly juxtaposes pairs of travel accounts, one written by an Asian, often Chinese, traveler heading west and one by a European journeying east. The structure recalls Plutarch’s Lives, which pairs a Greek figure with a Roman one, and it succeeds brilliantly because the dialogue between the two sources brings out qualities in each that might otherwise remain unseen.

will go a long way toward correcting the longstanding but mistaken belief that only Europeans traveled while others, including the Chinese, did not." —Valerie Hansen, Yale University https://www.cambriapress.com/ParallelJourneys