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*[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.
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