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===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/narrativesmissi00manngoog ''Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet, and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa''] by Clements R Markham Geographical Department, India Office. 1876 Archive.org. At least one missing page was noted. [https://archive.org/details/pts_narrativesofmiss_3721-1221 2nd version [microfilmed<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Archive.org. The narrative of George Bogle is dated 1774, and Thomas Manning’s journey was in 1811-12.
*[https://archive.org/details/accountofkoonawu00gera ''Account of Koonawur, in the Himalaya''] [1817-1818] by Captain Alexander Gerard 1841 Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/stream/accountofkoonawu00gera#page/n4/mode/1up Map of Koonawur], front of book. Koonawur was situated between the north of India and Chinese Tartary.
:''Narrative of a journey from Caunpoor to the Boorendo pass, in the Himalaya Mountains viâ Gwalior, Agra, Delhi, and Sirhind; by Major Sir William Lloyd. And Captain Alexander Gerard's account of an attempt to penetrate by Bekhur to Garoo, and the Lake Manasarowara: with a letter from the late J.G. Gerard, esq. detailing a visit to the Shatool and Boorendo passes, for the purpose of determining tte line of perpetual snow on the southern face of the Himalaya''. Ed. by George Lloyd, published 1840. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=V3kH65rfhDAC&pg=PR3-IA3 Volume I [1821-1822<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/narrativeofjourn02lloyiala ''Volume II Captain Alexander Gerard’s Narrative 1821''] Archive.org. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=J_kEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA421 Article about the book], page 421 ''The Monthly Review'', From January To April Inclusive. 1840 Google Books.
*''Letters from India : describing a journey in the British dominions of India, Tibet, Lahore, and Cashmere, during the years 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831'', undertaken by order of the French government by Victor Jacquemont, Museum of Natural History, Paris. [https://archive.org/details/lettersfromindia01jacq Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/lettersfromindia02jacq Volume II] Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=s90BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA254 "Tibet"] page 254 ''Introduction to the Geography and History of India, and of the Countries Adjacent'' by Alfred Radford Symonds . Printed for Bishop Corrie's Grammar School, American Miission Press, Madras 1845 Google Books.
*[https://archive.org/details/westernhimalayat00thom ''Western Himalaya and Tibet : a narrative of a journey through the mountains of northern India, during the years 1847-8''] by Thomas Thomson, Assistant Surgeon Bengal Army 1852 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofpedestria00knigrich ''Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet''] by Captain Knight , Forty-Eighth Regiment 1863 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/MN41790ucmf_6 ''Shelton of Tibet''] by Flora Beal Shelton 1923 Archive.org. Dr Albert Leroy Shelton, 1875-1922, was a medical missionary, for the Foreign Christian Missionary Society of Cincinnati, USA, until killed by bandits.
**[http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35118740 "The amazing adventures of Sue in Tibet and her creator"] by Tricia Kehoe 16 March 2016. BBC News. Dorris Shelton Still was the daughter of Dr Albert Shelton and his wife Flora, and spent her childhood in Tibet.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/118128 ''Tibet A Chronicle Of Exploration''] by John Macgregor 1970. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
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