Eberhard Isbrand Ides
Eberhard Isbrand Ides or Evert Ysbrants Ides was a Danish traveller and diplomat. In 1692 he travelled to China as a Russian ambassador, returning in 1694.
He was one of the first early Europeans to describe the Gobi Desert. His account appeared in French translation, along with a work by Cornelis de Bruijn, in Voyage de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Persia, et aux Indes Orientales, published in Amsterdam in 1718.
