Hey folks,

In searching around online, I’ve come across a few resources which may or may not be of use to people — whether for the course, or general interest/supplementary information.

This first link is to a site called Project Gutenburg, which has a fairly good reputation: if you’re looking for a text the copyright of which has lapsed by some time, there’s a good bet you’ll find it here in a number of formats.

In this case, the first text is The Travels of Marco Polo (by Marco Polo – surprise). The first link goes to Volume 1, the second to Volume 2:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10636
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12410

This next link is from the University of Washington, and contains maps, descriptions of locations, and a collection of historical texts which might be of particular interest as references (I would strongly suggest consulting with Dr Mitchell regarding these, should you intend to use them in your papers). I’ve posted the link to the historical texts separately below.
https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/
https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/texts.html

Hopefully this is some help. If I find anything else, it’ll go here — also, if anyone else finds things, this is probably a good place to share resources!

Cheers,
Alex