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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62617 ''Ibn Battuta Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354''] Translated and selected by H A R Gibb, Lecturer in Arabic, University of London. Third impression 1953, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62870 1929 first edition] Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Includes India.
*''A New Account of the East Indies, being the observations and remarks of Capt. Alexander Hamilton, who spent his time there from the year 1688 to 1723. Trading and travelling, by sea and land, to most of the countries and islands of commerce and navigation, between the Cape of Good-Hope, and the Island of Japon'' 1727 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1ombp1gBqKsC&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YCoCwtJd1gC&pg=PP5 Volume II] Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.39274 Modern reprint of Volume I, 1739 edition], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.39275 Modern reprint of Volume II 1739 edition], both Archive.org, from Digital Library of India
*''Travels Into Muscovy, Persia, and Part of the East Indies'' by M. Cornelius Le Bruyn 1737 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70528 Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.286322 Volume 2] Archive.org
*''A Voyage to China and the East Indies'' by Peter (Pehr) Osbeck. Translated from the German by John Reinhold Forster 1771. [https://archive.org/details/voyagetochinaeas01osbe/page/n3/mode/2up Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/voyagetochinaeas02osbe/page/n3/mode/2up Volume II] Archive.org. A voyage commencing in 1750, when he was the chaplain on a Swedish East India Company ship, the Prins Carl (Prince Charles). German title ''Reise nach Ostindien und China'' (1762). Originally written in Swedish ''Dagbok öfwer en ostindisk Resa åren 1750, 1751, 1752'' (1757). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pehr_Osbeck Pehr Osbeck] Wikipedia.
:In addition, Volume II of the this title contains the following
:[https://archive.org/details/voyagetochinaeas02osbe/page/152/mode/2up ''A Voyage to Suratte, China &c''] by Olof Toreen, Chaplain of the Gothic Lion East Indiaman, page 153 Volume II. A voyage from 1st April 1750 to 26th June 1752.
:[https://archive.org/details/voyagetochinaeas02osbe/page/266/mode/2up ''A Short Account of the Chinese Husbandry''] by Captain Charles Gustavus Eckeberg, page 267 Volume II. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustaf_Ekeberg Carl Gustaf Ekeberg] Wikipedia.
*''A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time'' by Robert Kerr 1824 editions, first published c 1811. Volumes VI, VII, VIII, IX have the majority of the content relating to India, other volumes listed have less relevant content, (while volumes not listed to do appear to have any relevant content). Google Books, Archive.org, and Hathi Trust Digital Library. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NUI9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NUI9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR15 Contents].[https://archive.org/details/generalhistoryco02kerrrich Volume II], [https://archive.org/stream/generalhistoryco02kerrrich#page/n5/mode/2up Contents]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=c8I6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume VI], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=c8I6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR4 Contents]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=B8Q6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume VII], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=B8Q6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 Contents]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WkM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume VIII] 1813 edition [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WkM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 Contents], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3510755?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 Volume VIII] 1824. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kUM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume IX] [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kUM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 Contents].[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=UScwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7 Volume XI], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=UScwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9 Contents]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kNw6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Vol XVII], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kNw6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR7 Contents] (Includes of a voyage including Macao and Canton). [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Gkg9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume XVIII] A Summary volume titled ''Historical Sketch'' by William Stevenson
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024059705 ''Early English Adventurers in the East''] by Arnold Wright 1917 Archive.org
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VA7R0u934qMC&pg=PP6 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=k0B3IYKuQb8C&pg=PP7 Volume II], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=5TvAodQe500C&pg=PP7 Volume III] Google Books
:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034B90 Volume I], [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034B96 Volume II], [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034B9C Volume III] British Library Digital Collection. Images can be rotated.
:Some sources give her names as Eleanor Louisa, Mrs Thomas Kibble. However, another source gives her as Julia Harvey, born 1825, the daughter of William Morton an engineer and his wife Juliana. <ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-1poAAAAMAAJ&q=Hervey+Tartary&dq=Hervey+Tartary&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiEq_PanrnRAhXBvrwKHQa3DAE4HhDoAQgeMAE Snippet Search result] from '' In Their Own Words: British Women Writers and India, 1740-1857'' by Rosemary Raza 2006 Google Books</ref> There was a marriage in Cawnpore 10 September 1845 of Julian Susan Morton , age 20, to Edward Harvey, Captain 10th Light Cavalry. He appears to be still alive in the late 1850s, so if this identification was correct, she did not undertake the journey due to widowhood. The Morton identification is confirmed in the 7 August 2022 article [https://exploringtibetvictorianweb.wikischolars.columbiaorg/history/explorers/herveybio.edu/The+Adventures+of+a+Lady+in+Tartaryhtml Juliana Hervey,+Thibet,+China+%26+Kashmir Article about the booknée Morton (1825-1905): A Brief Biography] by Christina Stoltz exploringtibet.wikischolarsPhoebe Caldwell.columbiavictorianweb.eduorg
*[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/dli.granth.72754/page/n5/mode/2up ''Jottings of an invalid in search of health, comprising a run through British India and a visit to Singapore and Java : a series of letters reprinted from the "Times of India"''] by Tom Cringle. [Author: William Walker, see Preface] 1865. Archive.org, Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Granth Sanjeevani Collection. Also available in the [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000356A0 British Library Digital Collection]. The letters are dated September 1863 to January 1865.
*[https://archive.org/details/infarthestburmar00ward ''In Farthest Burma: The record of an arduous journey of exploration and research through the unknown frontier territory of Burma and Tibet''] by Captain F Kingdon Ward, late Indian Army Reserve of Officers, attached 1/116th Mahrattas. 1921 Archive.org. With a [https://archive.org/stream/infarthestburmar00ward#page/n338/mode/1up Map]. The journey took place in 1914.
*[https://archive.org/details/jestingpilateint00huxl/page/4/mode/2up ''Jesting Pilate : an Intellectual Holiday''] by Aldous Huxley 1926. Archive.org. Reprinted as [https://archive.org/details/jestingpilatedia0000huxl/page/n7/mode/2up ''Jesting Pilate : the Diary of a Journey''] 1957 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library, and as ''Jesting Pilate: Travels Through India, Burma, Malaya, Japan, China, and America'' (1991).
* [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208694/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Last Home of Mystery: Adventures in Nepal Together with Accounts of Ceylon, British India, the Native States, the Persian Gulf, the Overland Desert Mail and the Baghdad Railway''] by E Alexander Powell 1929 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Alexander_Powell E. Alexander Powell] Wikipedia. American WW1 war correspondent and author.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210950/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Gentleman In The Parlour'' ] by W Somerset Maugham 1930 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Full title: ''The Gentleman in the Parlour : a record of a journey from Rangoon to Haiphong''. "The story of several trips: One up the Irrawady river to Mandalay in Burma, then a trek across the Shan mountains into what was then Siam, after that down the Mekong to Saigon and up then up coast to Hue in Vietnam".
* ''The Old Burma Road'' 1945. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501356 Archive.org version], mirror from 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523961 ''India: Land Of The Black Pagoda''] by Lowell Thomas 1931 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lA4NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England, in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818''] by George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence (1st Earl of Munster) 1819 Google Books.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=e3EfDIAlSCsC&pg=PR3 ''Travels from India to England, comprehending a visit to the Burman Empire and a journey through Persia, Asia Minor, European Turkey etc in the year 1825-26''] by James Edward Alexander, Lieut, late HM’s 13th Light Dragoons. 1827 Google Books. Also available [https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023511470.0x000001 Qatar Digital Library] where the illustrations have been correctly rotated, the latter file digitised from British Library: Printed Collections, IOL.1947.b.134
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=g4BCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Narrative of a Journey from Calcutta to Europe, by Way of Egypt, in the years 1827 and 1828''] by Mrs Charles Lushington [Sarah] 2nd edition 1829. Google Books. [httphttps://www4archive.org/details/journey-calcutta-europe/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. [https://btw.wlv.ac.uk/btw/authors/1091 "Sarah Lushington"] from [httphttps://www4btw.wlv.ac.uk/btw/ British Travel Writing]. The author, born 1789, travelled with her husband, Charles Lushington, and the "powerful administrator, traveller, and orientalist Mountstuart Elphinstone".*''Narrative of a Journey Overland from England by the Continent of Europe, Egypt and the Red Sea to India, including a residence there and voyage home, in the years 1825, 26, 27, and 28 '' by Mrs Colonel Elwood [Anne Katharine] 1830. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=5vdR-eVGtP8C&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=QS2j9S3Z7hcC&pg=PR3 Volume II]. Google Books. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008861179 HathiTrust Digital Library versions], where images can be rotated. [httphttps://www4btw.wlv.ac.uk/btw/authors/1048 Biographical details], British Travel Writing website indicates she was born 1796 and married Charles Elwood 1824.
*''Journey to the North of India: Overland from England, Through Russia, Persia, and Affghaunistan'' by Lieut. Arthur Conolly 1834. 2nd edition revised 1838 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=htUWAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I 1834], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=wyEj7vl0uDIC&pg=PR1 Volume II 1834]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sk7zBYBjW9sC&pg=PR4 Volume I, 1838], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=D74oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume II 1838] Google Books
*''Adventures During a Journey Overland to India: By Way of Egypt, Syria, and the Holy Land'' by Major Skinner 31st Reg. 1836. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Fd4DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR2 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XQ5ZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume II] Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/aridetoindiaacr01windgoog ''A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan''] by Harry de Windt 1891 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/throughturkishar00cowprich/page/n7/mode/2up ''Through Turkish Arabia : a journey from the Mediterranean to Bombay by the Euphrates and Tigris valleys and the Persian Gulf''] by H Swainson Cowper 1894 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/32882019068777-fromtheblacksea/page/n7/mode/2up ''From the Black Sea through Persia and India''] by Edwin Lord Weeks 1896 Archive.org. The journal for the journey commenced July 22, 1892.
*[https://archive.org/details/sportandpolitic00zetlgoog ''Sport and politics under an eastern sky''] by [Lawrence Zetland] the Earl of Ronaldsay 1902 Archive.org. Part II "From Simla to London by Land, via Quetta, Nushki, Sistan, Meshed, and the Caspian".
*[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
