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*[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/junglelifeinindi00balluoft ''Jungle Life in India : or, The Journeys and Journals of an Indian Geologist''] by V Ball Geological Survey of India 1880 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/winterinindia00baxtiala ''A Winter in India''] by W E Baxter MP 1882 Archive.org
*[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
*A collection of photographs from [http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/p15195coll29 ''India Illustrated: Being a Collection of Pictures of the Cities of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, Together with a Selection of the Most Interesting Buildings and Scenes throughout India''], published by Bennett, Coleman, & Co., publishers of the English language newspaper ''Times of India'', c 1905. University of Houston Digital Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/indiathroughste00ricagoog ''India through the stereoscope : a journey through Hindustan''] by James Ricalton 1907. Archive.org [He travelled in 1901-1903].This book was sold with a collection of photographs which could be viewed through a stereoscope. Stereographs copyrighted 1903. Examples, including from flickr.com and the British Library: [https://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3920409573/in/photostream/ No. 28 'Ekka' with passenger and baggage, coming from Cashmere (Kashmir) to Murree], [https://www.flickr.com/photos/campwala/2596512967/in/album-72157600243474620/ No 30. Before Christ Church, at Simla], [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/i/019pho000000181u00035000.html No. 35 Inflated bullock skin boat, or dreas, at the side of the river Sutlej], enlargeable. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/campwala/2801124203/in/album-72157600243474620/ No 75. Curiously rigged camel-waggons, Delhi], [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/m/019pho000000181u00080000.html No. 80 The great Durbar procession, Delhi, India] enlargable. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/campwala/2597329670/in/album-72157600243474620/ No 87. Palace of the Winds, Jeypore, India]. [http://luna-insight.smith.edu:8180/luna/servlet/ROTMANCOLL~20~1 A collection of these photographs reprinted 1923-1931] Smith College Libraries. Northampton, MA, USA
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.319510023550247?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''A Winter in India : light impressions of its cities, peoples, and customs''] by Archibald B. Spens ; with 95 illustrations. 1914. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/501356 ''The Old Burma Road''] 1945. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Full title: The ''Old Burma Road. A journey on foot and muleback. From the diary, notes and reminiscences of Doctor N. Bradley''. The author spent many years in China as a medical missionary. This is an account of a journey taken in March, 1930 on the granite slab road along which, 650 years earlier, Marco Polo had ridden with his escort of Kublai Khan's horsemen from Yunnan-Fu to Bhamo.
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