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*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/208590 ''Old Routes Of Western Iran''] by Sir Aurel Stein 1940. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208590 Archive.org version].
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037450601.0x000002 ''Thim Days Is Gone'']. Qatar Digital Library. A memoir written by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy recounting his career, initially in the Royal Artillery in a Light Battery, and an Indian Mountain Battery in the 1930s. He then joined the Foreign and Political Department in October 1936, (page 33) and his later postings included the Persian Gulf and Kuwait. Further details are in [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/02/thim-days-is-gone-a-colonial-memoir.html Thim Days Is Gone – a colonial memoir] 16 February 2017 Untold lives blog, British Library.
*[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. 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>
*[https://archive.org/details/br00itishacademytrbritrich ''The British Academy transliteration of Arabic and Persian. Report of the Committee appointed to draw up a practical scheme for the transliteration into English of words and names belonging to the languages of the Nearer East''] 1917 Archive.org
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