Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages is a multidisciplinary, non-Eurocentric reference book that covers the peoples, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years 525 to 1492. It contains, in one volume, over 125 illustrations and a vast amount of geographical, historical and technological information about the Middle Ages for undergraduate and graduate students but also for scholars seeking quick, factual information.