Born in Strasbourg to a Jewish family and educated in Paris, Max is a polyglot cosmopolitan, a raconteur, scholar, traveller and adventurer.
The Chinese scholar-travellers Faxian and Xuanzang, the Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta, and Marco Polo all wrote about the city.
He was not a natural businessman, and retained the instincts of a scholar and traveller.
In 1873, the British scholar and traveller Professor Basil Hall Chamberlain visited Japan.
All the kingdoms mentioned in the text are discussed along with speculations on their correct identities and locations from the great 19th century scholars and travellers: Stein, Hedin, Le Coq, Curzon, Younghusband et al up to the latest 21st century research.
By the late 1500s the town, north of the Niger river, was a wealthy and successful trading centre, attracting scholars and curious travellers from across the Middle East.
Bell was the British traveller, scholar and orientalist of the early 20th century who, like TE Lawrence, took a patrician interest in the Arab peoples who were yearning to throw off the yoke of the Ottoman Empire.
From the later twentieth century to the present a renaissance has occurred in the study of Victorian art, architecture and design and Crook contends that Burges's place at the centre of that world, as "a wide-ranging scholar, an intrepid traveller, a coruscating lecturer, a brilliant decorative designer and an architect of genius," is again appreciated.
Gentlemen travellers and scholars fill his pages, but always with a psychological – often animist – slant on things.
Reproduced across continents and centuries, Mercator's map reached generations of cartographers, explorers, historians, statesmen, scholars, writers, and armchair travellers.
Each Monday, he travelled from his home, in Sussex, to London, so that, with the help of his medium, he could have a talk with Leo Africanus, a sixteenth-century traveller and scholar whom he regarded as his spiritual alter ego.
