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*''Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the Northwest including Sinde Afghanistan Beloochistan The Punjab and the Neighbouring States'' by Edward Thornton, 1844 [http://books.google.com/books?id=4rgBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume 1, A-K], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_vVAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 Volume 2, L-Z], together with an Appendix containing 'Routes' and an [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_vVAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA379 Index (A-Z)] Google Books
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*Online books to download from [https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/afghanuno/ Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection] at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, by year of publication.
*[http://pahar.in/books/ PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset] includes a category Books: Afghanistan, listed by year of publication, some of which are linked below.
*Gazetteers
**''Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the Northwest including Sinde Afghanistan Beloochistan The Punjab and the Neighbouring States'' by Edward Thornton, 1844 [http://books.google.com/books?id=4rgBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume 1, A-K], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_vVAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 Volume 2, L-Z], together with an Appendix containing 'Routes' and an [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_vVAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA379 Index (A-Z)] Google Books
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.1988 ''Gazetteer of Afghanistan Part 1 Badakhshan 1914''] 5th edition by General Staff India. Note catalogued as Badakshan. Archive.org.
**''Historical and political gazetteer of Afghanistan''. Updated editions 1972-1985 of ''Gazetteer of Afghanistan'', compiled 1914. Edited by Ludwig W Adamec.
*:[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3421/page/n1/mode/2up Volume 1 ''Badakhshan Province and Northeastern Afghanistan''] 1972
*:[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3435/page/n1/mode/2up Volume 2 ''Farah and Southwestern Afghanistan''] 1973
*:[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3468/page/n1/mode/2up Volume 3 ''Herat and Northwestern Afghanistan''] 1975
*:[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3537/page/n1/mode/2up Volume 4 ''Mazar-I-Sharif and North-Central Afghanistan''] 1979
*:[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3558/page/n1/mode/2up Volume 5 ''Kandahar and South-Central Afghanistan''] 1980
*:[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3583/page/n1/mode/2up Volume 6 ''Kabul and Southeastern Afghanistan''] 1985
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofafghani00mall/page/n3/mode/2up ''History of Afghanistan : from the earliest period to the outbreak of the war of 1878''] by Colonel G B Malleson 1878. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/afghanistanafgha00bellrich ''Afghanistan and the Afghans: being a brief review of the history of the country, and account of its people, with a special reference to the present crisis and war with the Amir Sher Ali Khan''] by H W Bellew 1879 Archive.org
*''Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, and the Panjab: including a Residence in Those Countries from 1826 to 1838'' by Charles Masson 1842 Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=KBAlciGlDMMC&pg=PR3 Volume1], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=KlJFAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume 2], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=lFJFAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume 3]
:''Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, the Panjab, and Kalât, During a Residence in Those Countries: To which is Added an Account of the Insurrection at Kalât, and a Memoir on Eastern Balochistan'' by Charles Masson 1844 Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=MtYWAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume 1], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=RNYWAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume 2], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=WNYWAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume 3], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=dNYWAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR4 Volume 4]
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d00099264u?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Central Asia Part II: A contribution towards the better knowledge of the topography, ethnology, resources, & history of Afghanistan complied (for political and military reference)''] by C.M. MacGregor. 1871 HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1871-central-asia-part-2-a-contribution-towards-the-better-knowledge-of-topography-ethnology-resources-and-history-of-afghanistan-by-macgregor-s-pdf/ PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset] as a pdf download. If the download button does not display, locate under Books/Afghanistan.
:''Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan and on the N.W. Frontier of Afghanistan in 1875'', by Colonel C.M. MacGregor. 1879. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082408315?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Volume I] HathiTrust Digital Library [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.285074 Archive.org mirror version], originally from the Digital Library of India; [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082408323?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Volume II] HathiTrust Digital Library, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.40188 Archive.org mirror version], originally from the Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2883/page/n3/mode/2up ''An American Engineer in Afghanistan from the Letters and Notes of A C Jewett''], edited by Marjorie Jewett Bell 1948. Archive.org, mirror from Pahar: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. A C Jewett was chief engineer of the Amir from 1911 to 1919 in charge of installing a hydroelectric plant for Kabul.
* ''Beyond Khyber Pass'' by Lowell Thomas. First published 1925. Some editions were titled ''Beyond Khyber Pass into Forbidden Afghanistan''. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175794 Archive.org mirror version], originally from the Digital Library of India. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_Thomas Lowell Thomas] (Wikipedia) American writer and broadcaster.
*[https://archive.org/details/journalroyalartillery1926oct/page/413/mode/2up "Afghanistan" [A visit in 1925<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by Major G M Routh page 414 ''The Journal of the Royal Artillery'' Volume 53, No.3 1926 October. Archive.org
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1935-pedalling-through-the-afghan-wilds-being-the-experiences-of-kj-kharas-s-pdf/ ''Pedalling Through The Afghan Wilds. Being the Experiences of K.J. Kharas, R.D. Ghandhi, and R.D. Shroff''] 1935. Link to a pdf download Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2612/page/n3/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77252 ''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.
