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The Overland Route to and from India
*[https://archive.org/details/shortcuttoindiar00frasrich ''The Short Cut to India, the record of a journey along the route of the Baghdad Railway''] by David Fraser 1909 Archive.org
*''Overland to India'' by Sven Hedin 1910 [https://archive.org/details/overlandtoindia01hediuoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/overlandtoindia02hediuoft Volume II] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.354/page/n3/mode/2up ''By Car to India''] by Major F A Forbes -Leith. 1925 Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. The trip commenced in England late April 1924.
*[https://archive.org/details/wayoftransgresso00fars/page/546 “Flight to India”] [in 1930] page 547''The Way of a Transgressor'' by Negley Farson 1936 Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.76543/page/n3 2nd file] Archive.org. The India chapters continue to page 591. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negley_Farson Negley Farson] Wikipedia. The author was then an American foreign correspondent, one of the most renowned of his day.
*[https://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1752 ''Chariots of the Air''] by Harold Keates Hales 1936. Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Description of an airline trip from England to the East Indies and back. Note, website has been noticed to be unavailable at times. Possibly may be open only during "office hours".
* ''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
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