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*The story of Thomas Waghorn, at one time in the Bengal Pilot Service, who first developed the overland mail route between England and India. [https://michelhoude.com/Waghorm/ImagesLTW/@WArticle.htm MichelHoude.com]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140918003016/http://www.mta.hu/fileadmin/szekfoglalok/000914.pdf “Three British Travellers to the Middle East and India in the Early Seventeenth Century”] by Clifford Edmund Bosworth (April 2005?) Hungarian Academy of Sciences, archived. It includes details of Thomas Coryate, an Englishman who walked from Aleppo in Syria to India, via Iraq, Persia and Afghanistan, arriving at Amjer, Rajasthan in July 1615 after a ten month walk.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180102060427/http://www.mirror.co.uk:80/news/uk-news/exclusive-the-greatest-escape---war-394421 "The Greatest Escape - war hero who walked 4,000 miles from Siberian death camp"] 16 May 2009 mirror.co.uk, archived. Witold Glinski's escape to freedom in India. [https://www.explorersweb.com/trek/news.php?id=19856 Gliniecki: "I have solid evidence Glinski didn't do The Long Walk"] Jan 04, 2011 ExplorersWeb. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10158049/Witold-Glinski.html Obituary: Witold Glinski] 03 Jul 2013 ''The Telegraph''.
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/communicationwi00gallgoog ''Communication with India, China, &c: Observations on the Proposed Improvements in the Overland Route via Egypt with remarks on the Ship Canal,…''] by John Alexander Galloway 1844 Archive.org
