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==Historical books online==
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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62617 ''Ibn Battuta Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354''] Translated and selected by  H A R Gibb, Lecturer in Arabic, University of London. Third impression 1953, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62870 1929 first edition] Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Includes India.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62617 ''Ibn Battuta Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354''] Translated and selected by  H A R Gibb, Lecturer in Arabic, University of London. Third impression 1953, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62870 1929 first edition] Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Includes India.
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:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VA7R0u934qMC&pg=PP6 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=k0B3IYKuQb8C&pg=PP7 Volume II], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=5TvAodQe500C&pg=PP7 Volume III] Google Books  
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VA7R0u934qMC&pg=PP6 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=k0B3IYKuQb8C&pg=PP7 Volume II], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=5TvAodQe500C&pg=PP7 Volume III] Google Books  
:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034B90 Volume I], [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034B96 Volume II], [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034B9C Volume III] British Library Digital Collection.  Images can be rotated.
:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034B90 Volume I], [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034B96 Volume II], [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034B9C Volume III] British Library Digital Collection.  Images can be rotated.
:Some sources give her names as  Eleanor Louisa, Mrs Thomas Kibble. However, another source gives her as Julia Harvey, born 1825, the daughter of William Morton an engineer and his wife Juliana. <ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-1poAAAAMAAJ&q=Hervey+Tartary&dq=Hervey+Tartary&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiEq_PanrnRAhXBvrwKHQa3DAE4HhDoAQgeMAE  Snippet Search result] from    '' ‪In Their Own Words: British Women Writers and India, 1740-1857''‬ by Rosemary Raza 2006 Google Books</ref> There was a marriage in Cawnpore 10 September 1845 of Julian Susan Morton , age 20, to  Edward Harvey, Captain 10th Light Cavalry. He appears to be still alive in the late 1850s, so if this identification was correct, she did not undertake the journey due to widowhood. [https://exploringtibet.wikischolars.columbia.edu/The+Adventures+of+a+Lady+in+Tartary,+Thibet,+China+%26+Kashmir  Article about  the book] by Christina Stoltz exploringtibet.wikischolars.columbia.edu
:Some sources give her names as  Eleanor Louisa, Mrs Thomas Kibble. However, another source gives her as Julia Harvey, born 1825, the daughter of William Morton an engineer and his wife Juliana. <ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-1poAAAAMAAJ&q=Hervey+Tartary&dq=Hervey+Tartary&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiEq_PanrnRAhXBvrwKHQa3DAE4HhDoAQgeMAE  Snippet Search result] from    '' ‪In Their Own Words: British Women Writers and India, 1740-1857''‬ by Rosemary Raza 2006 Google Books</ref> There was a marriage in Cawnpore 10 September 1845 of Julian Susan Morton , age 20, to  Edward Harvey, Captain 10th Light Cavalry. He appears to be still alive in the late 1850s, so if this identification was correct, she did not undertake the journey due to widowhood. The Morton identification is confirmed in the 7 August 2022 article [https://victorianweb.org/history/explorers/herveybio.html Juliana Hervey, née Morton (1825-1905): A Brief Biography] by Phoebe Caldwell. victorianweb.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xagyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Wall-Street to Cashmere‬: ‪A Journal of Five Years in Asia, Africa and Europe''‬] by John B Ireland 1859 Google Books ”With nearly one hundred illustrations, from sketches made on the spot by the author” [https://archive.org/details/wallstreettocash1859irel  Archive.org version] Some individual pages may be clearer. The author arrived in India in January 1853 and departed April 1854, with a journey to Ceylon, Java and Singapore in the middle . He was an American lawyer [http://brookhavensouthhaven.org/hamletpeople/tng/getperson.php?personID=I123&tree=hamlet John Busteed Ireland] 1823- 1913
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xagyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Wall-Street to Cashmere‬: ‪A Journal of Five Years in Asia, Africa and Europe''‬] by John B Ireland 1859 Google Books ”With nearly one hundred illustrations, from sketches made on the spot by the author” [https://archive.org/details/wallstreettocash1859irel  Archive.org version] Some individual pages may be clearer. The author arrived in India in January 1853 and departed April 1854, with a journey to Ceylon, Java and Singapore in the middle . He was an American lawyer [http://brookhavensouthhaven.org/hamletpeople/tng/getperson.php?personID=I123&tree=hamlet John Busteed Ireland] 1823- 1913
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.72754/page/n5/mode/2up ''Jottings of an invalid in search of health, comprising a run through British India and a visit to Singapore and Java : a series of letters reprinted from the "Times of India"''] by Tom Cringle. [Author: William Walker, see Preface] 1865. Archive.org, Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Granth Sanjeevani Collection.  Also available in the [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000356A0 British Library Digital Collection]. The letters are dated September 1863 to January 1865.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.72754/page/n5/mode/2up ''Jottings of an invalid in search of health, comprising a run through British India and a visit to Singapore and Java : a series of letters reprinted from the "Times of India"''] by Tom Cringle. [Author: William Walker, see Preface] 1865. Archive.org, Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Granth Sanjeevani Collection.  Also available in the [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000356A0 British Library Digital Collection]. The letters are dated September 1863 to January 1865.
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*[https://archive.org/details/infarthestburmar00ward ''In Farthest Burma: The record of an arduous journey of exploration and research through the unknown frontier territory of Burma and Tibet''] by  Captain F Kingdon Ward, late Indian Army Reserve of Officers, attached 1/116th Mahrattas. 1921 Archive.org. With a [https://archive.org/stream/infarthestburmar00ward#page/n338/mode/1up Map].  The journey took place in 1914.
*[https://archive.org/details/infarthestburmar00ward ''In Farthest Burma: The record of an arduous journey of exploration and research through the unknown frontier territory of Burma and Tibet''] by  Captain F Kingdon Ward, late Indian Army Reserve of Officers, attached 1/116th Mahrattas. 1921 Archive.org. With a [https://archive.org/stream/infarthestburmar00ward#page/n338/mode/1up Map].  The journey took place in 1914.
*[https://archive.org/details/jestingpilateint00huxl/page/4/mode/2up ''Jesting Pilate : an Intellectual Holiday''] by Aldous Huxley 1926. Archive.org. Reprinted as [https://archive.org/details/jestingpilatedia0000huxl/page/n7/mode/2up ''Jesting Pilate : the Diary of a Journey''] 1957 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library, and as ''Jesting Pilate: Travels Through India, Burma, Malaya, Japan, China, and America'' (1991).
*[https://archive.org/details/jestingpilateint00huxl/page/4/mode/2up ''Jesting Pilate : an Intellectual Holiday''] by Aldous Huxley 1926. Archive.org. Reprinted as [https://archive.org/details/jestingpilatedia0000huxl/page/n7/mode/2up ''Jesting Pilate : the Diary of a Journey''] 1957 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library, and as ''Jesting Pilate: Travels Through India, Burma, Malaya, Japan, China, and America'' (1991).
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208694/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Last Home of Mystery: Adventures in Nepal Together with Accounts of Ceylon, British India, the Native States, the Persian Gulf, the Overland Desert Mail and the Baghdad Railway''] by E Alexander Powell 1929 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Alexander_Powell E. Alexander Powell] Wikipedia. American WW1 war correspondent and author.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210950/page/n5/mode/2up  ''The Gentleman In The Parlour''] by W Somerset Maugham 1930 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.  Full title: ''The Gentleman in the Parlour : a record of a journey from Rangoon to Haiphong''. "The story of several trips: One up the Irrawady river to Mandalay in Burma, then a trek across the Shan mountains into what was then Siam, after that down the Mekong to Saigon and up then up coast to Hue in Vietnam".
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210950/page/n5/mode/2up  ''The Gentleman In The Parlour''] by W Somerset Maugham 1930 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.  Full title: ''The Gentleman in the Parlour : a record of a journey from Rangoon to Haiphong''. "The story of several trips: One up the Irrawady river to Mandalay in Burma, then a trek across the Shan mountains into what was then Siam, after that down the Mekong to Saigon and up then up coast to Hue in Vietnam".
* ''The Old Burma Road'' 1945.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501356 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: The ''Old Burma Road. A journey on foot and muleback. From the diary, notes and reminiscences of Doctor N. Bradley''. The author spent many years in China as a medical missionary. This is an account of a journey taken in March, 1930 on the  granite slab road along which, 650 years earlier, Marco Polo had ridden with his escort of Kublai Khan's horsemen from Yunnan-Fu to Bhamo.
* ''The Old Burma Road'' 1945.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501356 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: The ''Old Burma Road. A journey on foot and muleback. From the diary, notes and reminiscences of Doctor N. Bradley''. The author spent many years in China as a medical missionary. This is an account of a journey taken in March, 1930 on the  granite slab road along which, 650 years earlier, Marco Polo had ridden with his escort of Kublai Khan's horsemen from Yunnan-Fu to Bhamo.
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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lA4NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England, in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818''] by George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence (1st Earl of Munster) 1819 Google Books.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lA4NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England, in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818''] by George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence (1st Earl of Munster) 1819 Google Books.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=e3EfDIAlSCsC&pg=PR3 ‪''Travels from India to England‬, comprehending a visit to the Burman Empire and a journey through Persia, Asia Minor, European Turkey etc in the year 1825-26''] by James Edward Alexander, Lieut, late HM’s 13th Light Dragoons. 1827 Google Books‬. Also available [https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023511470.0x000001 Qatar Digital Library] where the illustrations have been  correctly rotated, the latter file digitised from British Library: Printed Collections, IOL.1947.b.134
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=e3EfDIAlSCsC&pg=PR3 ‪''Travels from India to England‬, comprehending a visit to the Burman Empire and a journey through Persia, Asia Minor, European Turkey etc in the year 1825-26''] by James Edward Alexander, Lieut, late HM’s 13th Light Dragoons. 1827 Google Books‬. Also available [https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023511470.0x000001 Qatar Digital Library] where the illustrations have been  correctly rotated, the latter file digitised from British Library: Printed Collections, IOL.1947.b.134
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=g4BCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Narrative of a Journey from Calcutta to Europe, by Way of Egypt, in the years 1827 and 1828''] by Mrs Charles Lushington [Sarah] 2nd edition 1829. Google Books. [http://www4.wlv.ac.uk/btw/authors/1091 "Sarah Lushington"] [http://www4.wlv.ac.uk/btw/ British Travel Writing]. The author, born 1789, travelled with her husband, Charles Lushington, and the "powerful administrator, traveller, and orientalist Mountstuart Elphinstone".
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=g4BCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Narrative of a Journey from Calcutta to Europe, by Way of Egypt, in the years 1827 and 1828''] by Mrs Charles Lushington [Sarah] 2nd edition 1829. Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/journey-calcutta-europe/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. [https://btw.wlv.ac.uk/authors/1091 "Sarah Lushington"] from [https://btw.wlv.ac.uk British Travel Writing]. The author, born 1789, travelled with her husband, Charles Lushington, and the "powerful administrator, traveller, and orientalist Mountstuart Elphinstone".
*''Narrative of a Journey Overland from England by the Continent of Europe, Egypt and the Red Sea to India, including a residence there and voyage home, in the years 1825, 26, 27, and 28 '' by Mrs Colonel Elwood [Anne Katharine] 1830.  [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=5vdR-eVGtP8C&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=QS2j9S3Z7hcC&pg=PR3 Volume II]. Google Books. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008861179 HathiTrust Digital Library versions], where images can be rotated. [http://www4.wlv.ac.uk/btw/authors/1048 Biographical details],  British Travel Writing  website indicates she was born 1796 and married Charles Elwood 1824.
*''Narrative of a Journey Overland from England by the Continent of Europe, Egypt and the Red Sea to India, including a residence there and voyage home, in the years 1825, 26, 27, and 28 '' by Mrs Colonel Elwood [Anne Katharine] 1830.  [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=5vdR-eVGtP8C&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=QS2j9S3Z7hcC&pg=PR3 Volume II]. Google Books. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008861179 HathiTrust Digital Library versions], where images can be rotated. [https://btw.wlv.ac.uk/authors/1048 Biographical details],  British Travel Writing  website indicates she was born 1796 and married Charles Elwood 1824.
*''Journey to the North of India: Overland from England, Through  Russia, Persia, and Affghaunistan''  by Lieut. Arthur Conolly  1834. 2nd edition revised 1838 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=htUWAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I 1834], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=wyEj7vl0uDIC&pg=PR1 Volume II 1834]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sk7zBYBjW9sC&pg=PR4 Volume I, 1838],  [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=D74oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume II 1838] Google Books
*''Journey to the North of India: Overland from England, Through  Russia, Persia, and Affghaunistan''  by Lieut. Arthur Conolly  1834. 2nd edition revised 1838 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=htUWAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I 1834], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=wyEj7vl0uDIC&pg=PR1 Volume II 1834]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sk7zBYBjW9sC&pg=PR4 Volume I, 1838],  [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=D74oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume II 1838] Google Books
*''Adventures During a Journey Overland to India: By Way of Egypt, Syria, and the Holy Land'' by Major Skinner 31st Reg. 1836. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Fd4DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR2 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XQ5ZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume II] Google Books
*''Adventures During a Journey Overland to India: By Way of Egypt, Syria, and the Holy Land'' by Major Skinner 31st Reg. 1836. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Fd4DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR2 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XQ5ZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume II] Google Books
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*[https://archive.org/details/aridetoindiaacr01windgoog ''A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan''] by Harry de Windt 1891  Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/aridetoindiaacr01windgoog ''A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan''] by Harry de Windt 1891  Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/throughturkishar00cowprich/page/n7/mode/2up ''Through Turkish Arabia : a journey from the Mediterranean to Bombay by the Euphrates and Tigris valleys and the Persian Gulf''] by H Swainson Cowper 1894 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/throughturkishar00cowprich/page/n7/mode/2up ''Through Turkish Arabia : a journey from the Mediterranean to Bombay by the Euphrates and Tigris valleys and the Persian Gulf''] by H Swainson Cowper 1894 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/32882019068777-fromtheblacksea/page/n7/mode/2up ''From the Black Sea through Persia and India''] by Edwin Lord Weeks 1896 Archive.org. The journal for the journey commenced July 22, 1892.
*[https://archive.org/details/sportandpolitic00zetlgoog ''Sport and politics under an eastern sky''] by [Lawrence Zetland] the Earl of Ronaldsay 1902 Archive.org. Part II "From Simla to London by Land, via Quetta, Nushki, Sistan, Meshed, and the Caspian".
*[https://archive.org/details/sportandpolitic00zetlgoog ''Sport and politics under an eastern sky''] by [Lawrence Zetland] the Earl of Ronaldsay 1902 Archive.org. Part II "From Simla to London by Land, via Quetta, Nushki, Sistan, Meshed, and the Caspian".
*[https://archive.org/details/shortcuttoindiar00frasrich ''The Short Cut to India, the record of a journey along the route of the Baghdad Railway''] by David Fraser 1909 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/shortcuttoindiar00frasrich ''The Short Cut to India, the record of a journey along the route of the Baghdad Railway''] by David Fraser 1909 Archive.org
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*[https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.354/page/n3/mode/2up ''By Car to India''] by Major F A Forbes -Leith. 1925 Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. The trip commenced in England late April 1924.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.354/page/n3/mode/2up ''By Car to India''] by Major F A Forbes -Leith. 1925 Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. The trip commenced in England late April 1924.
*[https://archive.org/details/wayoftransgresso00fars/page/546 “Flight to India”] [in 1930] page 547''The Way of a Transgressor'' by Negley Farson 1936 Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.76543/page/n3 2nd file] Archive.org.  The India chapters continue to page 591. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negley_Farson Negley Farson] Wikipedia. The author was then  an American foreign correspondent,  one of the most renowned of his day.
*[https://archive.org/details/wayoftransgresso00fars/page/546 “Flight to India”] [in 1930] page 547''The Way of a Transgressor'' by Negley Farson 1936 Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.76543/page/n3 2nd file] Archive.org.  The India chapters continue to page 591. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negley_Farson Negley Farson] Wikipedia. The author was then  an American foreign correspondent,  one of the most renowned of his day.
*[https://archive.org/details/pt-1-chariots-air-001-v-vi/Pt1ChariotsAir001v-vi/mode/2up ''Chariots of the Air''] by Harold Keates Hales  1936. Archive.org. A series of Parts, mirror from [https://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1752  STOU Digital Repository] Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, STOU website has been noticed to be unavailable at times. Possibly may be open only during "office hours". Description of a business and sightseeing  trip mainly by plane from England to the East Indies and back, possibly in 1933.  
*[https://archive.org/details/pt-1-chariots-air-001-v-vi/Pt1ChariotsAir001v-vi/mode/2up ''Chariots of the Air''] by Harold Keates Hales  1936. Archive.org. A series of Parts, mirror from [https://repository.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1752  STOU Digital Repository] Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, STOU website has been noticed to be unavailable at times. Possibly may be open only during "office hours". Description of a business and sightseeing  trip mainly by plane from England to the East Indies and back, possibly in 1933.  
* ''The Overland Route From India'' by Stanley Jepson 1938.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62817 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
* ''The Overland Route From India'' by Stanley Jepson 1938.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62817 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1944-over-khyber-to-the-caspian-sea-by-ahlsand-s-pdf/  ''Over Khyber to the Caspian Sea''] by Ruth Ahlsand 1944.  Published by Thackers Bombay. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2828/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].  The Norwegian authoress and her husband followed the trail of the Peacock Throne, which was looted from Delhi and taken to Teheran in 1739.  It is thus a different kind of travel book, tracing the path and the history of this Throne and touching on characters and events. <ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59477978 Book review  ''Sunday Times'' (Perth, WA : Sun 22 Jun 1947] trove.nla.gov.au</ref>
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1944-over-khyber-to-the-caspian-sea-by-ahlsand-s-pdf/  ''Over Khyber to the Caspian Sea''] by Ruth Ahlsand 1944.  Published by Thackers Bombay. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2828/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].  The Norwegian authoress and her husband followed the trail of the Peacock Throne, which was looted from Delhi and taken to Teheran in 1739.  It is thus a different kind of travel book, tracing the path and the history of this Throne and touching on characters and events. <ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59477978 Book review  ''Sunday Times'' (Perth, WA : Sun 22 Jun 1947] trove.nla.gov.au</ref>

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Historical books online

Frampton’s 1579 book The Most Noble and Famous Travels of Marcus Paulus… was republished in 1929 as The Most Noble and Famous Travels of Marco Polo, together with the travels of Nicolò de' Conti, edited by N M Penzer. "The Travels of Nicolò de' Conti in the East" page 124 and Appendix I, page 259 2nd edition 1937 (enlarged). Archive.org
An account of Nicolo de’ Conti is found in Chapters IX and and X of Pero Tafur: Travels and adventures 1435-1439 translated and edited with an introduction by Malcolm Letts. 1926 from page 84 with Notes page 241 Archive.org
‪India in the Fifteenth Century‬: ‪Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India ... from Latin, Persian, Russian and Italian Sources ... Translated Into English edited by Richard Henry Major 1857. Printed for the Hakluyt Society. Google Books. Also available on Archive.org. The Travels of Abd-Er-Razzak; Nicolo Conti, translated from the original of Poggio Bracciolini, papal secretary, with notes, by J.W. Jones; Athanasius Nikitin, a native of Twer; Hieronimo di Santo Stefano, a Genoese.
The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, the Portuguese (done into English by Henry Cogan) with an Introduction by Arminius Vambery. A volume in The Adventure Series. Abridged and Illustrated edition 1891, Popular edition 1897 All Archive.org.
The Travels of Mendes Pinto Edited and translated by Rebecca D Catz 1989. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
Fernão Mendes Pinto Wikipedia. He made three voyage 1537-1558.
Originally published in 1596 as Itinerario: Voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien, 1579-1592 , with first English translation in 1598, John Huighen van Linschoten his Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies, deuided into foure books. Jan Huyghen van Linschoten Wikipedia.
The 1885 edition is edited from the First Book. Vol I edited by the late Arthur Coke Burnell of the Madras Civil Service. Vol. II edited by P A Tiele. Archive.org, mirror from PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
1598 English edition Translated from the Dutch by William Phillip. Library of Congress.
Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others by Samuel Purchas 1905 reprint, original 1625 Archive.org. Volume II, Contents. Volume III, Contents. Volume IV, Contents. Volume V, Contents. Other volumes: Archive.org
Mandelsloʼs travels in Western India (A.D.1638-9) by M.S. Commissariat 1931. Archive.org, mirror from the collection of the Archaeological Survey of India at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.
A collection of several relations & treatises singular and curious of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne, not printed among his first six voyages 1680 Archive.org
Travels in India by John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne. Translated from the original French edition of 1676 by V Ball (Valentine), Director of the Science and Art Museum, Dublin. 1889. Volume I, Volume II Archive.org.
2nd edition: Volume I and Volume II (one digital file) 1925, edited by William Crooke, late of Indian Civil Service. Archive.org. This edition includes revisions made by Dr Ball prior to his death in 1895, but not published.
  • The travels of Richard Bell (and John Campbell) in the East Indies, Persia, and Palestine. 1654-1670, edited by Sir R.C. Temple. Printed as a book 1908, originally available as seven extracts from The Indian Antiquary 1906-1908. Part, or all of this account is also available in a subscription website Adam Matthew Digital database Empire Online under the title The Travels of Richard Bell, gun founder to the Great Mughals travelling in India and the Middle East, 1654-1669, description including topics.
1906 pages 131-142, pages 168-178, pages 203-210; 1907 pages 98-105, pages 125-134, pages 173-179; 1908 pages 156-170 The Indian Antiquary. Archive.org.
An Account of the Inquisition at Goa, in India. Translated from the French of M. Dellon 1819 Archive.org. Translated from a copy printed in Paris in 1687. The events happened in 1674. Dellon, a physician spent some time in North Malabar and was operating out of the French factory in Tellicherry for five years after which he left the French services. Six months later, he was in jail In Daman [1](Damaun)
  • The Travels of the Abbe Carre in India and the Near East, 1672 to 1674. Tr. from the ms. journal of his travels in the India Office by Lady Fawcett and ed. by Sir Charles Fawcett with the assistance of Sir Richard Burn. In three volumes (Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. 2nd series ; No. 95-97) 1947-48. Volume I From France through Syria, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf to Surat, Goa, and Bijapur... Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Original title includes alternative spelling Abbé Carré. (Volume II is From Bijapur to Madras and St. Thomé. Account of the capture of Trincomalee Bay and St. Thomé by De la Haye and of the siege of St. Thomé by the Golconda army and hostilities with the Dutch. Volume III Return journey to France).Translation of Le courier de l'Orient.
  • A new account of East-India and Persia : : in eight letters being nine years travels, begun 1672 and finished 1681 by John Fryer 1698 London. Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. Includes Bombaim [Bombay], Surat. Goa. Includes, facing p114 drawings of the Areca Nut or Betele nut, and other plants. Google Books edition which appears to contain some, but not all illustrations.
A later edition, edited, with notes and an introduction, by William Crooke, formerly of the Bengal Civil Service, in three volumes, printed for the Hakluyt Society, (Second Series, 2/19, 2/20 and 2/39) 1909-1915. Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3 Archive.org, mirrors from Digital Library of India. Additional digital files may be available.
Transcribed version lib.umich.edu
Indian Records Series. Indian travels of Thevenot and Careri : being the third part of the travels of Jean de Thevenot into the Levant and the third part of a voyage round the world by John Francis Gemelli Careri edited by Surendranath Sen 1949. Contains many Notes at the back of the book. 1949 edition, Reprint edition 2011 Archive.org
Jean de Thévenot 1633-1667 Wikipedia.
A Voyage to Surat in the Year 1689 by John Ovington, edited by H G Rawlinson, with commentary, 1929. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Some words may be missing due to the scanning. 1994 reprint of the 1929 edition Archive.org.
  • Storia do Mogor; or, Mogul India 1653-1708 by Niccolao Manucci, Venetian, translated by William Irvine, Bengal Civil Service (retired) 1907. Part of Indian Texts Series Volume I, Volume II, Volume III, Volume IV. Archive.org.
A Pepys of Mongul India, 1653-1708 : being an abridged edition of the "Storia do Mogor" of Niccolao Manucci 1913 Archive.org.
  • A Collection of Voyages and Travels: Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts... : Volume IV which contains A Voyage round the World in Six parts viz, Turky; Persia; India; China; the Philippine Islands; New Spain by Dr John Francis Gemelli Careri Written originally in Italian, translated into English. 1704 edition including "Part III Indostan", page 256 Google Books. The author was in India in 1695. Third edition, 1744 including "Part III Indostan" page 186. Archive.org. Note: missing first page of the Preface.
Indian Travels of Careri c page 154 Indian Records Series. Indian travels of Thevenot and Careri : being the third part of the travels of Jean de Thevenot into the Levant and the third part of a voyage round the world by John Francis Gemelli Careri edited by Surendranath Sen 1949. Archive.org.
Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri Wikipedia.
In addition, Volume II of the this title contains the following
A Voyage to Suratte, China &c by Olof Toreen, Chaplain of the Gothic Lion East Indiaman, page 153 Volume II. A voyage from 1st April 1750 to 26th June 1752.
A Short Account of the Chinese Husbandry by Captain Charles Gustavus Eckeberg, page 267 Volume II. Carl Gustaf Ekeberg Wikipedia.
  • A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time‬ by Robert Kerr 1824 editions, first published c 1811. Volumes VI, VII, VIII, IX have the majority of the content relating to India, other volumes listed have less relevant content, (while volumes not listed to do appear to have any relevant content). Google Books, Archive.org, and Hathi Trust Digital Library. Volume I, Contents.Volume II, Contents. Volume VI, Contents. Volume VII, Contents. Volume VIII 1813 edition Contents, Volume VIII 1824. Volume IX Contents.Volume XI, Contents. Vol XVII, Contents (Includes of a voyage including Macao and Canton). Volume XVIII A Summary volume titled Historical Sketch by William Stevenson
  • Early English Adventurers in the East by Arnold Wright 1917 Archive.org
  • Early English Travellers In India by Ram Chandra Prasad 1965. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India.
  • Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies by Mrs. Kindersley 1777 Archive.org. The letters from India commence with Letter 18 in Pondicherry June 1765 and conclude with letter 67 from Calcutta in 1768. Jemima Kindersley, (1741-1809). Wife of Lieutenant Nathaniel Kindersley (1732–1769) of the Royal Artillery and later, from 27 July 1764, Captain in the East India Company's Bengal Artillery. Jemima Kindersley Wikipedia.
  • Travels, in various parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, during a series of thirty years and upwards by John MacDonald, 1790. Google Books. Pages 154-278 cover the time the author (born 1741) spent In India as a servant c late 1760s/early 1770s. Republished in 1927 under the title Memoirs of an eighteenth-century footman, John Macdonald : Travels (1745-1779). A transcription ECCO-TPC umich.edu.
  • Journal of a Voyage from India to Siam and Malacca in 1779 by Dr J G Koenig. Journal Of The Straits Branch Of The Royal Asiatic Society No. 26, January 1894 and No.27, October 1894. Archive.org (in one digital volume). Translated from his manuscripts in German and Danish in nineteen volumes at the British Museum. Koenig came to India in 1768 where he acted as doctor to the Danish Missionaries at Tranquebar and afterwards was appointed Naturalist to the Nabob of Arcot.
Pages 58-192 No.26 January 1894 which ends "Here ends the first part of Vol.2"; "Continuation Vol 13, from page 43" pages 193-201, No.26 January 1894; Continuation Vol 2, from page 1 page 57-133 No.27, October 1894.
  • A voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal, undertaken in the years 1789 and 1790. Containing an account of the Sechelles Islands and Trincomale ... To which is added, a voyage in the Red Sea. Including a description of Mocha, and of the trade of the Arabs of Yemen ... by L de Grandpré, an officer in the French Army. 1803. Volume I, Volume II. Also published with a slightly different title. Archive.org
  • Oriental Repertory by Alexander Dalrymple Volume 1 1793 and Volume 2 1808. The two volumes contain many tracts on the history, industries, etc. of India, China, and Indo-China, including travel, journeys etc first published at irregular intervals, in eight "numbers," from April 1791 to April 1797
Table of Contents, computer pages 28-31; General index of Persons commencing part O-Z computer pages 632-633; General Index of Things A-Z computer pages 634-637.
For more details of the author, see List of Indian Civil Servants
Volume I, Volume II, Volume III Google Books
Volume I, Volume II, Volume III British Library Digital Collection. Images can be rotated.
Some sources give her names as Eleanor Louisa, Mrs Thomas Kibble. However, another source gives her as Julia Harvey, born 1825, the daughter of William Morton an engineer and his wife Juliana. [2] There was a marriage in Cawnpore 10 September 1845 of Julian Susan Morton , age 20, to Edward Harvey, Captain 10th Light Cavalry. He appears to be still alive in the late 1850s, so if this identification was correct, she did not undertake the journey due to widowhood. The Morton identification is confirmed in the 7 August 2022 article Juliana Hervey, née Morton (1825-1905): A Brief Biography by Phoebe Caldwell. victorianweb.org
A varied life: a record of military and civil service, of sport and of travel in India, Central Asia and Persia 1849 -1902 by Gen. Sir Thomas Edward Gordon. 1906 Archive.org. Also see Iran for another book by this author.
British Library version with illustrations; Archive.org version. Lacks illustrations
Across The Highways Of The World by K J Kharas, R D Gandhi, R D Shroff. Second edition 1941, first published 1939. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
Khyber Caravan: Through Kashmir, Waziristan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Northern India by Gordon Sinclair 1936. Archive.org. Also available PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If download button does not display, locate in Books/Indian Subcontinent/1936.
"Chapter 13 Footloose in India" page 129 Signposts to Adventure by Gordon Sinclair 1947 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

The Overland Route to and from India

“Remarks and Occurrences in a Journey from Aleppo to Bassora by way of the Desert" by William Beawes, Esqr 1745 from The Desert Route to India by Douglas Carruthers from Sylvia Volk’s Page of Asia, now archived
“Account of a Journey from Basra to Aleppo in 1748” by Gaylard Roberts from The Desert Route to India by Douglas Carruthers from Sylvia Volk’s Page of Asia, now archived
Sample pages from The Desert Route to India edited by Douglas Carruthers 1929. Google Books.
Article about the author "Man who sailed up the ganges and died in Nagpur" by Shishir Arya Sep 27 2019 The Times of India, Nagpur City. George Forster spent his last years at Nagpur as the East India Company’s envoy at the Bhonsla king’s court from 1788 to 1791, where he died at the age of 39, reportedly of fever.

Bibliography

Volume Two: The New World 1950/1938. Note: missing at least pages 417-428 “Military Expeditions”.
Volume Two: The New World 1950/1938 [All pages] Archive.org Lending Library
(Volume Three: Great Britain) Archive.org.

References

  1. "Charles (Claude) Gabriel Dellon, the Frenchman in Malabar" 14 April 2013 Historic Alleys.
  2. Snippet Search result from ‪In Their Own Words: British Women Writers and India, 1740-1857‬ by Rosemary Raza 2006 Google Books
  3. Book review Sunday Times (Perth, WA : Sun 22 Jun 1947 trove.nla.gov.au