Sextus Julius Africanus ( c. 160 – c. 240 ) was a Christian traveller and historian of the late 2nd and early 3rd century AD.

In the early 14th century, Ibn Battuta, a Berber traveller from North Africa, visited Kilwa and proclaimed it one of the best cities in the world.

In 1811, and again in 1818, projects of Asiatic exploration were proposed to Humboldt, first by the Russian government, and afterwards by the Prussian government ; but on each occasion, untoward circumstances interposed, and it was not until he had begun his sixtieth year that he resumed his early role of traveller in the interests of science.

A traveller ’ s account early in the 18th century tells us: ' Gloves they make better and cheaper than in England, for they send great quantities thither.

According to the Seyahatname of Ottoman historian and traveller Evliya Çelebi, in circa 1630-1632, Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi flew as an early intercontinental aviator using artificial wings for gliding from this tower over the Bosphorus to the slopes of Üsküdar on the Anatolian side, nearly six kilometres away.

But a people of this name seems to have been mentioned by the early traveller Pytheas as inhabiting the coasts of the northern ocean in his time.

In early versions of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium ( see: The History of Middle-earth ), Tol Eressëa was an island visited by the Anglo-Saxon traveller Ælfwine ( in earlier versions, Eriol ) which provided a framework for the tales that later became The Silmarillion.

Carl Jonas Love ( Ludvig ) Almqvist ( 28 November 1793, Stockholm, Sweden – 26 September 1866, Bremen, Germany ), was a romantic poet, early feminist, realist, composer, social critic and traveller.

A member of the advisory board for the early Australia Council Vance was attacked as a Communist “ fellow traveller ” ( which to some extent he was ) during the McCarthyist period of the 1950s, but his integrity was recognised by the deeply conservative Prime Minister of that era, Sir Robert Menzies.

An important early documentary film, Eriskay: A Poem of Remote Lives, made by a German traveller, Werner Kissling, was set on the island.

The author and traveller Bill Bryson spent his early married life in the village.

The town is said to be named after an early visitor, Emile Roland, who was nicknamed " Lefeta ," literally meaning " traveller " or " passer-by.

Jean Chardin ( 16 November 1643 – 5 January 1713 ), born Jean-Baptiste Chardin, and also known as Sir John Chardin, was a French jeweller and traveller whose ten-volume book The Travels of Sir John Chardin is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Persia and the Near East.

Francois Maximilian Misson, a French traveller and writer, recorded the method used in England in the early 18th century:

Francois Maximilian Misson, a French traveller and writer, recorded the method used in England in the early 18th century:

Thomas Coryat a traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age was born in Crewkerne around 1577.

Thomas Coryat ( also Coryate ) ( c. 1577 – 1617 ) was an English traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age.

In addition, the area around Sangju, which would have been the first major city a traveller from the north would come to after crossing Haneuljae, early became a center of Buddhism, in contrast to much of the rest of Silla, which put up stiff resistance to the new faith.

In the early 19th century, when Debar rebelled against the Turkish Sultan, the French traveller, publicist, and scientist Ami Bue observed that Debar had 64 shops and 4, 200 residents.

In the early 19th century, the British traveller J. Buckingham noted that all the inhabitants of Saffuriya were Muslim, and that the house of St. Anna had been completely demolished.

For the men, this was noted as early as 1819 by the traveller Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in his Travels to Nubia.

A world traveller, Britisher A. Henry Savage Landor, visited Santa Maria in the course of his oriental tour, and has left us a rather typical picture of the town in the early 1900s.

As this implies, the typical OE traveller is in his or her early to mid 20s and middle class.

* Johann Schiltberger ( 1381 – ), German traveller throughout the Middle East and Central Asia.

* December – In the Middle East, traveller Pietro Della Valle marries Jowaya, daughter of a Nestorian Christian father and an Armenian mother, in Baghdad.

Later envoys included Odoric of Pordenone, Giovanni de ' Marignolli, John of Montecorvino, Niccolò de ' Conti, or Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan Muslim traveller, who passed through the present-day Middle East and across the Silk Road from Tabriz, between 1325 – 1354.

She was an archaeologist, traveller and photographer in the Middle East before World War I.

* Donald Campbell ( traveller ) ( 1751 – 1804 ), Scottish traveller in India and the Middle East

British Orientalism, though not as common as in France at the same period, had many specialists, including John Frederick Lewis, who lived for nine years in Cairo, David Roberts, a Scot who made lithographs of his travels in the Middle East and Italy, the nonsense writer Edward Lear, a continual traveller who reached as far as Ceylon, and Richard Dadd.

His friendship with Middle Eastern traveller and advisor Sir Mark Sykes dates from his entry into parliament in 1911 when, with George Lloyd, they were the three youngest Conservative MPs.

A renowned traveller, especially in the Middle East, his trips include voyages through Japan, Yemen, Anatolia and Albania.

Yehuda Alharizi, also Judah ben Solomon Harizi or al-Harizi (, Yehudah ben Shelomo al-Harizi,, Yahya bin Sulaiman bin Sha ' ul abu Zakaria al-Harizi al-Yahudi min ahl Tulaitila ) was a rabbi, translator, poet and traveller active in Spain in the Middle Ages ( in Toledo?

The tomb lies on the line of several cairns that marked the east-west route of the ancient Monks ' Path between Buckfast Abbey and Tavistock Abbey and it was no doubt erected here as part of that route: it would have been particularly useful in this part of the moor with few landmarks where a traveller straying from the path could easily end up in Foxtor Mires.

The inhabitants of Great Britain have been drinking ale since the Bronze Age, but it was with the arrival of the Romans and the establishment of the Roman road network that the first inns called tabernae, in which the traveller could obtain refreshment, began to appear.

The Novikov Principle does not allow a time traveller to change the past in any way at all, but it does allow them to affect past events in a way that produces no inconsistencies — for example, a time traveller could rescue people from a disaster, and replace them with realistic corpses if history recorded that bodies of victims had been found.

There could be " an ensemble of parallel universes " such that when the traveller kills the grandfather, the act took place in ( or resulted in the creation of ) a parallel universe where the traveler's counterpart never exists as a result.

For instance, a time traveller could assassinate a politician who led his country into a disastrous war, but the politician's followers would then use his murder as a pretext for the war, and the emotional effect of that would cancel out the loss of the politician's charisma.

Or the traveller could prevent a car crash from killing a loved one, only to have the loved one killed by a mugger, or fall down the stairs, choke on a meal, killed by a stray bullet, etc.

Giordano would have joined them, but Carrel refused absolutely to take him with them ; he said he would not have the strength to guide a traveller, and could neither answer for the result nor for any one's life.

As the traveller James Bruce noted, Adwa was situated on a piece of " flat ground through which every body must go in their way from Gondar to the Red Sea "; the person who controlled this plain could levy profitable tolls on the caravans which passed through.

Gas and sulphur smoke have been reported in the area as well as hot water springs discovered by the Amarualik ( meaning wolf-like ) family ; all of which could cause a " mirage " causing to the traveller to see things such as Ijirait and Tariaksuq.

It does not muddy the waters with inconvenient relativistic effects ; a traveller journeying from one end of the Oikumene to the other could synchronise watches with one who remained planet-bound meanwhile, and at the end of his journey the two watches would still be in agreement ; there is no twin paradox to be considered.

An interstate traveller could receive an alarm when approaching the location of a speed monitoring camera.

For example, foot-and-mouth disease could be introduced into the U. S. via contaminated meat products brought into the country by a traveller.

Its size made it suitable for use as a 19th century equivalent to a motorhome, as it could be adapted with all manner of conveniences ( beds, dressing tables and so on ) for the traveller.

These excesses of time warfare eventually led to the whole of the conflict becoming " time-locked ", so that no time traveller could go back into it.

By this point, the entire period of war had become " time locked ", so that no time traveller could enter or exit it.

He described how a traveller could pass through the Great Hall, and be entertained and sometimes refreshed.

The crew set up a wire and traveller so all 18 members of the crew and their equipment could cross the chasm.