This table lists major 19th and early 20th century Western travellers who produced ethnographic accounts of Mongolia and Inner Asia.
Years in Inner Asia | Name | Nationality | Profession | Selected works |
1844-1846 | Evariste Huc | French | Missionary (Catholic) | Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China During the Years 1844-5-6 |
1870-1891 | James Gilmour | British | Missionary | James Gilmour of Mongolia: His diaries, letters and reports (Lovett 1892) |
1876-1885 | Przhewalskii | Polish-Russian | Geographer | Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet (1876) |
1876-1886 | GI Potanin | Russian | Naturalist, Ethnographer | Путешествия Г.Н. Потанина по Китаю, Тибету и Монголии [Travels of GN Potanin in China, Tibet, and Mongolia] (1893) |
1880s-1890s | W Radloff (Radlov) | German- Russian | Linguist, Archaeologist, Ethnographer | Aus Sibirien [From Siberia] (1884) |
1883-1909 | William Woodville Rockhill | American | Diplomat, Tibetologist | The Land of the Lamas: Notes of a Journey Through China, Mongolia and Tibet (1891); Explorations in Mongolia and Tibet (1893); Notes on the Ethnology of Tibet: Based on the Collections in the U.S. National Museum (1895) |
1886-1904 | Francis Younghusband | British | Geographer | “A Journey Across Central Asia, from Manchuria and Peking to Kashmir, over the Mustagh Pass.” Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography 10 (8), 1888. |
1888-1892 | Bronislav Gromchevsky | Polish-Russian | Explorer | |
1888-1926 | Pyotr Kozlov | Russian | Explorer, archaeologist | Mongolia and Amdo and the Dead City of Khara-Khoto (1923) |
1889-1891 | Nikolai Yadrintsev | Russian | Archaeologist | |
1892-1893 | AM Pozdneyev | Russian | Geographer | Монголия и монголы [Mongolia and the Mongols] (1896) |
1894-1935 | Sven Anders Hedin | Swedish | Geographer | Through Asia (1898); History of the expedition in Asia, 1927-1935 (1944) |
1899-1902 | Gombojab Tsybikov (Цэвэгийн Гомбожав) | Russian | Tibetologist | Избранные труды [Selected works] (1919) |
1902 | CW Campbell | British | Consul (GB) | Travels in Mongolia, 1902: A Journey by C. W. Campbell, the British Consul in China. Edited by Tim Coates (2000). |
1910-1954 | SI Rudenko | Russian | Physical anthropologist, archaeologist | |
1920-1930 | RC Andrews | American | Naturalist, Paleontologist | Across Mongolian Plains: A Naturalist’s Account of China’s “Great Northwest” (1921) |
1925–1928 | Nicholas Roerich | Russian | Artist, philosopher | |
1930s | AD Simukov | Russian | Geographer |