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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211247 ''India of the Rajahs''] by Major S E G Ponder 1940 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*Also see [[China#Journeys, and Central Asia|China - Historical books online - Journeys, and Central Asia]]
 
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===The Overland Route to and from India===
* ''Medieval Routes To India: Baghdad To Delhi'' by HC Verma 1960. Full title: ''Medieval Routes to India: Baghdad to Delhi. A study of trade and military routes''. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.136186 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eJNeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The Ocean & the Desert''] by A Madras Officer, stated to be the late Major General Albert Henry Andrew Hervey 1846. Google Books. Two Volumes in one. Volume II commences following page 271. By ship from Bombay to Suez, on the "Hindustan", a large steam ship, (but with crowded accomodation), sightseeing in Egypt, by ship to Italy with sightseeing there, etc.
*''Through Asiatic Turkey. Narrative of a Journey from Bombay to the Bosphorus'' by Grattan Geary, Editor of ''The Times of India'' 1878 [https://archive.org/details/throughasiatict00geargoog ''Volume I''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.82983 ''Volume II''] [https://archive.org/details/throughasiatict02geargoog ''Volume II'', from page 90 only, but illustrations may be better], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284626 Another file, ''Volume II''] Archive.org, including books from the Digital Library of India Collection.
*''Six Months in Persia'' by Edward Stack, Bengal Civil Service. 1882. [https://archive.org/details/sixmonthsinpersi01staciala/page/n9/mode/2up Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/sixmonthsinpersi02staciala/page/n3/mode/2up Volume II]. A journey from India to England commencing January 1881. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/withstarcrescent00lochuoft/page/n9 ''With Star and Crescent : a full and authentic account of a recent journey with a caravan from Bombay to Constantinople, comprising a description of the country, the people, and interesting adventures with the natives''] by A Locher 1891. With illustrations based on the author's sketches. Archive.org. First published 1888. 1890 edition available [http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/204879-with-star-and-crescent-a-full-and-authentic-account-of-a-recent-journey-with-a-caravan-from-bombay-to-constantinople-comprising-a-description-of-the-country-the-people-and-interesting-adventures-with-the-natives FamilySearch Digital Library] where some of the images have been (correctly) rotated. You need to be signed in to [[FamilySearch]] to view the book.
*[https://archive.org/details/aridetoindiaacr01windgoog ''A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan''] by Harry de Windt 1891 Archive.org.
* ''The Overland Route From India'' by Stanley Jepson 1938. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62817 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[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>
===Bibliography===*[https://archive.org/details/referenceguideto030515mbp /page/n5/mode/2up ''A Reference Guide To The Literature Of Travel Volume One: The Old World''] by Edward Godfrey Cox 1948 reprint edition, originally published 1935. Archive.org. Included chapters East Indies, Far East etc
:[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.3489 ''Volume Two: The New World''] 1950/1938. Note: missing at least pages 417-428 “Military Expeditions”.
:[https://archive.org/details/referenceguideto0002coxe/page/n5 ''Volume Two: The New World''] 1950/1938 [All pages] Archive.org Lending Library
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