徐霞客(1586——1641年),名弘祖,字振之,号霞客,江苏省江阴县人,是我国著名的旅行家和地理学家。他生前曾有计划地考察了华东、华北、东南沿海、云贵高原等地,足迹达当时的十六个省份,行程以万里计。旅途中,曾三次遇盗,四次绝粮,历经坎坷,毫不动摇。其笔录《徐霞客游记》,为后人辗转抄录了三百多年,留存的仅及原著的六分之一, Xu Xiake (1586 - 1641), the name Hongzu, the word Zhen, number Xia off, Jiangyin County, Jiangsu Province, is China’s famous traveler and geographer. During his lifetime he had a planned inspection of East China, North China, the southeast coast, the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and other places, the footprint of the then 16 provinces, travel to million. During the trip, there were three times theft, four times without food, after ups and downs, without wavering. The transcript of “Xu Travels”, copied for future generations copied more than 300 years, retained only the original one-sixth,