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Post-classical history

Ahmad ibn Fadlan
10th-century Arab traveller and ethnographer
Benjamin of Tudela
Jewish explorer and writer
Bjarni Herjólfsson
Norse explorer, first known European discoverer of the mainland of the Americas
Erik the Red
Norse explorer
Giovanni da Pian del Carpine
Roman Catholic archbishop and traveller
Giovanni de' Marignolli
Czech medieval chronicler
Ibn Battuta
Maghrebi traveller and scholar (1304–1368/1369)
Ingólfr Arnarson
9th century Norse explorer
Lancelotto Malocello
Italian explorer
Leif Erikson
Norse explorer (c. 970–c. 1020)
Mandeville's Travels
Writer
Marco Polo
Italian explorer and merchant noted for travel to central and eastern Asia
Wang Dayuan
Chinese explorer
William of Rubruck
Flemish missionary and explorer (fl. 1248–55)
Xuanzang
7th century Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar
Zheng He
Chinese mariner and diplomat (1371–1433/1435)