Coasting Into Asia
description: An illustration from the 1899 book by John Fraser, Round the world on a wheel
source: Fraser, John Foster. Round the World on a Wheel : Being the Narrative of a Bicycle Ride ... through Seventeen Countries and across Three Continents. London : Methuen & Co., 1907. http://archive.org/details/cu31924023252707. p 76
date: 1899

Europe and Asia
description: An illustration of the Europe-Asia border marker in the Ural Mountains, from Thomas Knox's 1871 book, Overland through Asia.
source: Knox, Thomas Wallace. Overland through Asia: Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life. American publishing company, 1871. p 574
date: 1871

Heat Map of "Europe-Asia" border regions in 19th century and post-1991 travelogues.
description: A heat map generated by mapping all of the points where English-language travelers identified a border or borderland between Europe and Asia or East and West. The Caucasus (especially Tbilisi), the Balkans (especially Bosnia) and the Volga/Ural region (especially Orenburg) were the most common locations.
creator: Joshua Kucera
date: 2015

Herodotus's map of the world
subject: A schematic representation of the world as Herodotus saw it.
source: Great Britain, Challenger Office. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873-76. New York:
date: 1895

Route of Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe
description: The route map used by Anne Applebaum in her book Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe
source: Applebaum, Anne. Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe. Pantheon Books, 1994.
date: 1994

Route taken in Eastward to Tartary
description: The route followed by Robert Kaplan in his book Eastward to Tartary
source: Kaplan, Robert D. Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus. Random House, 2000.
date: 2000

View on River Sava, looking from Slavonian Brood to the Bosnian Shore.
subject: Bosnia
description: An illustration from Arthur Evans's 1877 book, Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina on Foot During the Insurrection, August and September 1875
source: Evans, Sir Arthur. Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina on Foot During the Insurrection, August and September 1875: With an Historical Review of Bosnia, and a Glimpse at the Croats, Slavonians, and the Ancient Republic of Ragusa. Longmans, Green, 1877. p 88
date: 1877

Word clouds
description: Word clouds generated by analyzing language used by travelers describing the experience of a border or borderland between Europe and Asia.
creator: Joshua Kucera
date: 2015