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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523961 ''India: Land Of The Black Pagoda''] by Lowell Thomas 1931 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromsiamtosuez010141mbp ''From Siam to Suez''] by James Saxon Childers 1932 Archive.org. The author travelled to Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma and India.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1935-where-china-meets-burma-life-and-travel-in-the-burma-china-border-lands-by-metford-s-pdf/ ''Where China Meets Burma. : Life and Travel in the Burma-China Border Lands''] by Beatrix Metford 1935. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. (If download does not display, located in Books/Tibet And China). A description of the book elsewhere indicates the author accompanied her husband, who was a British official. They lived for several years in the Shan States, Burma and then in Yunnan, southern China.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1935-pedalling-through-the-afghan-wilds-being-the-experiences-of-kj-kharas-s-pdf/ ''Pedalling Through The Afghan Wilds. Being the Experiences of K.J. Kharas, R.D. Ghandhi, and R.D. Shroff''] 1935. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77252 ''Across The Highways Of The World''] by K J Kharas, R D Gandhi, R D Shroff. Second edition 1941, first published 1939. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
===The Overland Route to and from India===
* ''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://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
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