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*''Central Asia and Tibet. Towards the holy city of Lassa'' by Sven Hedin 1903 [https://archive.org/details/b29352332_0001/page/n7 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/b29352332_0002/page/n7 Volume II] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/explorationoftib01sand_0/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Exploration of Tibet, its History and Particulars from 1623 to 1904''] by Graham Sandberg 1904. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/withtibetansinte0000rijn/page/n7/mode/2up ''With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple : Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders and of a Journey Into the Far Interior''] by Susie Carson Rijnhart M D, 1999 reprint edition, first published 1904, or prior. The author was in Tibet 1895-1899 as a missionary with her husband, although they were not part of a missionary society. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.91291/page/n3/mode/2up ''Tibet and Turkestan: A Journey through Old Lands and a Study of New Conditions''] by Oscar Terry Crosby 1905. Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Collection. The journey was made in 1903.
*[https://archive.org/details/openingoftibetac00land ''The Opening of Tibet; an account of Lhasa and the country and people of central Tibet and of the progress of the mission sent there by the English government in the year 1903-4''] by Perceval Landon, Special Correspondent of the ''Times''. 1905 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2258/mode/2up ''Tibet Past And Present''] by Sir Charles Bell 1968 reprint edition, first published 1924. Archive.org, mirror from PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.88030/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Road to Lamaland: Impressions of a Journey to Western Thibet''] by "Ganpat" M L A Gompertz (Martin Louis Alan Gompertz (1886-1951)) [1926] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210179 ''The Jewel In The Lotus''] by Sir Basil John Gould 1957. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection (catalogued 1921). Full title: ''The Jewel in the Lotus: Recollections of an Indian Political''. Gould's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Gould Wikipedia page] advises he joined the Indian Civil Service in 1907, and served as a Political Officer in Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet from 1935 to 1945.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.553402/page/n5/mode/2up ''Tibet: A Chronicle of Exploration''] by John MacGregor 1970. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
