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*[https://archive.org/details/yankeeonyangtzeb00geil ''A Yankee on the Yangtze; being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma''] by William Edgar Geil ... With one hundred full-page illustrations 1904 London edition with a [https://archive.org/stream/yankeeonyangtzeb00geil#page/n25/mode/1up map] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.155680 ''Ernest H. Wilson Plant Hunter''] [1876-1930] by Edward I Farrington 1931. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/lauterbachofchin00lowe ''Lauterbach of the China Sea : the Escapes and Adventures of a Seagoing Falstaff''] by Lowell Thomas, 1930 Archive.org. [https://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJulius_Lauterbach&edit-text=&act=url Julius Lauterbach] Wikipedia Google Translate English] [1877-1937], [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Lauterbach Original German version]. From c 1900 to the start of WW1, Lauterbach sailed the China Sea, becoming Captain, with the initial chapters covering this period.
*See Fiction below, for ''Yangtze Skipper'', set in 1919 [[Shanghai]].
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1973-macartney-at-kashgar-by-skrine-s-pdf/ ''Macartney at Kashgar: New Light on British, Chinese and Russian Activities in Sinkiang, 1890-1918''] by C.P. Skrine and Pamela Nightingale. 1973. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Macartney’s wife Catherine wrote of her time at Kashgar in ''An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan'' first published 1931. A later biography is ''The Diplomat of Kashgar: A Very Special Agent. The Life of Sir George Macartney, 18 January 1867-19 May 1945'' by James McCarthy.
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023243391 ''Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia''] by Ella Sykes and Percy Sykes, 1920 Archive.org. Covers the brief period in which Percy Sykes relieved Macartney at Kashgar while the latter was on leave in 1916 but is really Percy's sister Ella Sykes’s travel account and says little about consular affairs.
