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*[http://archive.org/stream/selectionsfromtr00forr#page/n5/mode/2up ''Selections from the Travels and Journals Preserved in the Bombay Secretariat''] [http://archive.org/stream/selectionsfromtr00forr#page/n9/mode/2up Contents] Edited by George W. Forrest, C.I.E., ex-Director of Records, Government of India. 1906 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/selectionsfromtr00forr#page/n5/mode/2up ''Selections from the Travels and Journals Preserved in the Bombay Secretariat''] [http://archive.org/stream/selectionsfromtr00forr#page/n9/mode/2up Contents] Edited by George W. Forrest, C.I.E., ex-Director of Records, Government of India. 1906 Archive.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/cu31924074488440 ''Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce in Pigtail and Petticoats; or, An Overland Journey from China towards India''] by T T Cooper, late Agent for the Chamber of Commerce at Calcutta 1871 Archive.org. Contains a map.
*[https://archive.org/details/inhimalayasando00cummgoog ''In the Himalayas and on the Indian Plains''] by C F [Constance Frederica] Gordon Cumming, with [https://archive.org/stream/inhimalayasando00cummgoog#page/n20/mode/2up Illustrations] 1884 Archive.org. Some parts of the book were first published in 1876 in ''From the Hebrides to the Himalayas''.
*[https://archive.org/details/inhimalayasando00cummgoog ''In the Himalayas and on the Indian Plains''] by C F [Constance Frederica] Gordon Cumming, with [https://archive.org/stream/inhimalayasando00cummgoog#page/n20/mode/2up Illustrations] 1884 Archive.org. Some parts of the book were first published in 1876 in ''From the Hebrides to the Himalayas''.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromcavesjungles00blavuoft ''From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan'']  Translated from the Russian of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Reprinted 1908 (originally published 1892) Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fromcavesjungles00blavuoft ''From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan'']  Translated from the Russian of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Reprinted 1908 (originally published 1892) Archive.org
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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=RrA2AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA3 "A Journal from Aleppo, over the Desert to Basserah, October 21, 1771"] by Mr Carmichael, the appendix to ''A voyage to the East Indies: Volume 1'' by John Henry Grose 1772. Google Books. Mr Carmichael had been dismissed from the East India Company and was refused a passage to India on board any of the Company's ships. This book commences with a description of a [http://books.google.com/books?id=RrA2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 sea voyage to Bombay in 1750]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=RrA2AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA3 "A Journal from Aleppo, over the Desert to Basserah, October 21, 1771"] by Mr Carmichael, the appendix to ''A voyage to the East Indies: Volume 1'' by John Henry Grose 1772. Google Books. Mr Carmichael had been dismissed from the East India Company and was refused a passage to India on board any of the Company's ships. This book commences with a description of a [http://books.google.com/books?id=RrA2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 sea voyage to Bombay in 1750]
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HMMRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11 ''‪Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt: Also by Vienna Through Constantinople to Aleppo, and from Thence by Bagdad and Directly Across the Great Desert to Bassora : With Occasional Remarks on the Adjacent Countries, an Account of the Different Stages, and Sketches of the Several Routes on Four Copper Plates''‬] by James Capper. Third edition with Alterations and Additions 1785 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HMMRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11 ''‪Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt: Also by Vienna Through Constantinople to Aleppo, and from Thence by Bagdad and Directly Across the Great Desert to Bassora : With Occasional Remarks on the Adjacent Countries, an Account of the Different Stages, and Sketches of the Several Routes on Four Copper Plates''‬] by James Capper. Third edition with Alterations and Additions 1785 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://archive.org/details/voyageuppersiang00heudiala ''A Voyage up the Persian Gulf, and a Journey Overland from India to England, in 1817''] by Lieutenant William Heude of the Madras Military Establishment 1819 Archive.org
*[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.
*''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
*[https://archive.org/details/aridetoindiaacr01windgoog ''A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan''] by Harry de Windt 1891 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/shortcuttoindiar00frasuoft ''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/shortcuttoindiar00frasuoft ''The Short Cut to India, the record of a journey along the route of the Baghdad Railway''] by David Fraser 1909 Archive.org
*''Overland to India'' by Sven Hedin  1910 [https://archive.org/details/overlandtoindia01hediuoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/overlandtoindia02hediuoft Volume II] Archive.org
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/62817 ''The Overland Route From India''] by Stanley Jepson 1938. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.


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Historical books online

A Voyage To Surat In The Year 1689 by John Ovington, edited by H G Rawlinson, with commentary, 1929 is available to download as a pdf from Osmania University Digital Library [OUDL]. Restricted download hours may possibly apply. This book is also available to read online on the Digital Library of India website.
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

The Overland Route to and from India

“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