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While the history of travelling had long been constructed as a history of ?European? male mobility, representatives of the emerging postcolonial studies took a critical look at the ?expansion of Europe? and developed readings to deconstruct the hierarchical categorisations of ?the rest? by conquerors, travellers and emigrants from Europe. In this respect, journeys to Europe are of special interest, as they gave travellers the opportunity to glance at Europe and to draw a picture of it by themselves.Therefore, this anthology makes the hitherto little-noticed perspectives of non-European travellers on Europe accessible to research discourse. The focus is thus once again on Europe, however not as a starting point of journeys or conquests, but rather on how Europe was seen and constructed by non-European travellers. Therefore, this anthology juxtaposes (self-)representations of Europe with diverse perspectives that move in a field of tension between agreement, contradiction, and oscillation. And by exploring questions of (non-)belongings, the contributions draw an image of Europe that is beyond an exclusively geographical meaning.