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*[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://archive.org/details/pt-1-chariots-air-001-v-vi/Pt1ChariotsAir001v-vi/mode/2up ''Chariots of the Air''] by Harold Keates Hales 1936. Archive.org. A series of Parts, mirror from [https://digitallibrepository.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1752 STOU Digital Repository] Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, STOU website has been noticed to be unavailable at times. Possibly may be open only during "office hours". Description of a business and sightseeing trip mainly by plane from England to the East Indies and back, possibly in 1933.
* ''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. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2828/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. 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>
