Changes

Jump to navigation Jump to search

Travel accounts online

109 bytes added, 13:51, 30 September 2019
Historical books online
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1936-khyber-caravan-through-kashmir-waziristan-afghanistan-baluchistan-and-northern-india-by-sinclair-s-pdf/ ''Khyber Caravan–through Kashmir Waziristan Afghanistan Baluchistan and Northern India''] by Gordon Sinclair 1936. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211247 ''India of the Rajahs''] by Major S E G Ponder 1940 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*Also see [[China#Journeys, and Central Asia|China - Historical books online - Journeys, and Central Asia]]
 
===Bibliography===
===The Overland Route to and from India===
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1944-over-khyber-to-the-caspian-sea-by-ahlsand-s-pdf/ ''Over Khyber to the Caspian Sea''] by Ruth Ahlsand 1944. Published by Thackers Bombay. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. The Norwegian authoress and her husband followed the trail of the Peacock Throne, which was looted from Delhi and taken to Teheran in 1739. It is thus a different kind of travel book, tracing the path and the history of this Throne and touching on characters and events. <ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59477978 Book review ''Sunday Times'' (Perth, WA : Sun 22 Jun 1947] trove.nla.gov.au</ref>
===Bibliography===
*[https://archive.org/details/referenceguideto030515mbp ''A Reference Guide To The Literature Of Travel Volume One: The Old World''] by Edward Godfrey Cox 1948 reprint edition, originally published 1935. Archive.org. Included chapters East Indies, Far East etc
:[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.3489 ''Volume Two: The New World''] 1950/1938. Note: missing at least pages 417-428 “Military Expeditions”.
29,533
edits

Navigation menu