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* ''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.
*''The diary of William Hedges, Esq. (afterwards Sir William Hedges), during his agency in Bengal : as well as on his voyage out and return overland (1681-1697)''. [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.13203 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.13242 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/diaryofwilliamhe783hedg Volume III] Archive.org. Transcribed by R Barlow, with additional material by Colonel Henry Yule. Printed for the Hakluyt Society Volumes 74, 75, 78, 1887-88-89.
*[https://archive.org/details/the-desert-route-to-india/page/n5''The Desert Route to India : being the journals of four travellers by the great desert caravan route between Aleppo and Basra, 1745-1751''] edited by Douglas Carruthers 1929. Archive.org. Accounts by William Beawes, Gayland Roberts, Bartholomew Plaisted, John Carmichael. :[https://web.archive.org/web/20120313163143/http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Desert.htm “Remarks and Occurrences in a Journey from Aleppo to Bassora by way of the Desert"] by William Beawes, Esqr 1745 from ''The Desert Route to India'' by Douglas Carruthers from Sylvia Volk’s Page of Asia, now archived
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20120313163310/http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Desert2.htm “Account of a Journey from Basra to Aleppo in 1748”] by Gaylard Roberts from ''The Desert Route to India'' by Douglas Carruthers from Sylvia Volk’s Page of Asia, now archived
:Sample pages from [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=QcpZz402GcwC&pg=PR7 ''The Desert Route to India''] edited by Douglas Carruthers 1929. Google Books. Full title: ''The Desert Route to India : being the journals of four travellers by the great desert caravan route between Aleppo and Basra, 1745-1751''. This book is available on [https://archive.org/details/TheDesertRouteToIndia Archive.org] where, for ease of reading, a djvu or (Bit)Torrent plug-in may be required. Accounts by William Beawes, Gayland Roberts, Bartholomew Plaisted, John Carmichael.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=c3oBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''A Journal from Calcutta, by sea, to Busserah: from thence across the Great Desart to Aleppo; and from thence to Marseilles, and through France, to England, in... 1750 by Mr Bartholomew Plaisted, in the East India Company’s Service. To which are added, directions by Capt. E. Elliot, for passing over the Little Desart from Busserah, etc. And A Journal of the Proceedings of the Doddington East-Indiaman, till she was unfortunately wrecked on the East Coast of Africa etc''] Second Edition 1758 Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.24163 Archive.org version].
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=RrA2AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA3 "A Journal from Aleppo, over the Desert to Basserah, October 21, 1771"] by Mr Carmichael, the appendix to ''A voyage to the East Indies: Volume 1'' by John Henry Grose 1772. Google Books. Mr Carmichael had been dismissed from the East India Company and was refused a passage to India on board any of the Company's ships. This book commences with a description of a [http://books.google.com/books?id=RrA2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 sea voyage to Bombay in 1750]
