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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=OHWMG4_nOQwC&pg=PA259 Shipwreck] of the Juno on the coast of Aracan in 1795 and [http://books.google.com/books?id=OHWMG4_nOQwC&pg=PA293 history] of Aracan. Google Books
*[https://archive.org/stream/calcuttareviewv06unkngoog#page/n188/mode/2up "In Arakan A Century Ago"] page 175 ''The Calcutta Review (April 1907)''. Archive.org. Includes details of the life of John Christopher Fink, born 1796, who became a missionary.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofburmain00phay ''History of Burma including Burma Proper, Pegu, Taungu, Tenasserim and Arakan. From the Earliest Time to the End of the First War with British India''] by Lieut-General Sir Arthur P Phayre 1883 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.32059 ''History Of Burma''] by G E Harvey 1925. (later reprint edition) Full title: ''History of Burma : From the Earliest Times to 10 March, 1824, the Beginning of the English Conquest''. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/populardescripti00cond ''The Modern Traveller: A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe: Birmah, Siam, and Anam''] 1826 Archive.org. With a [https://archive.org/stream/populardescripti00cond#page/n7/mode/1up Map of Indo-China]. The author is catalogued as Josiah Conder.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=LR9DAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA175 “General Remarks on the Coast of Arracan”] by Captain Laws, H M S Satellite. Read at a meeting 13 June 1831. ''The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society Volume the First'' , published 1832. Google Books.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/wildsportsofburm00pollrich#page/n5/mode/2up ''Wild sports of Burma and Assam''] by Fitz William Thomas Pollok and W. S. Thom 1900 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924092600141#page/n187/mode/2up "Prisons of Burmah"] page 171 ''Oriental Prisons: Prisons and Crime in India, The Andaman Islands, Burmah- China-Japan-Egypt Turkey'' by Major Arthur Griffiths, late Inspector of Prisons in Great Britain. C1900. Archive.org. Volume XII in the series ''The history and romance of crime from the earliest time to the present day''. Published by the Grolier Society.
*Monographs concerning Industry and Industrial Art. Pdf downloads, Digital Repository of GIPE. Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune]
:[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25624 ''Glass Mosaics of Burma with Photographs''] by Harry L Tilly 1901
:[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/24356 ''Silk in Burma''] by J P Hardiman 1901
:[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25625 ''Silverwork of Burma with photographs by P. Klier''] by Harry L Tilly 1902
:[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/25626 ''Wood-carving of Burma, with photographs by P Klier''] by Harry L Tilly 1903
:[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/22573 ''Monograph on Iron and Steel Work in Burma''] by E N Bell (cataloged as Bett) 1907
*''Burma under British Rule - and Before'' by John Nisbet, late Conservator of Forests, Burma. 1901 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/burmaunderbritis01nisb Volume I] Missing Map. [https://archive.org/details/burmaunderbritis02nisb Volume II], [https://archive.org/stream/burmaunderbritis02nisb#page/442/mode/2up Index], page 443, Vol. II.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023503174 ''Scenes in Burma: An Album of 125 Views''] c 1900-1910? Archive.org
*[http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=sea;cc=sea;q1=Calcutta;rgn=title;view=toc;idno=sea289 ''Tourist guide and shopping list : where to go, what to see, where to shop in Calcutta and Burma''] 1920 Southeast Asia Visions
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023498458#page/n3/mode/2up ''Burma Pictures''] c 1920 Archive.org
*[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/35269 ''Report on a visit to some salt workings in the Shwebo and Sagaing Districts, Upper Burma''] by F W Walker 1921 Digital Repository of GIPE Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune, India]
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210950 ''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".
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/501356 ''The Old Burma Road''] 1945. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501356 Archive.org version]. 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.
