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The Overland Route to and from India
*[https://archive.org/details/voyageuppersiang00heudiala ''A Voyage up the Persian Gulf, and a Journey Overland from India to England, in 1817''] by Lieutenant William Heude of the Madras Military Establishment 1819 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lA4NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England, in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818''] by George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence (1st Earl of Munster) 1819 Google Books.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=e3EfDIAlSCsC&pg=PR3 ‪''Travels from India to England‬, comprehending a visit to the Burman Empire and a journey through Persia, Asia Minor, European Turkey etc in the year 1825-26''] by James Edward Alexander, Lieut, late HM’s 13th Light Dragoons. 1827 Google Books‬. Also available [https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023511470.0x000001 Qatar Digital Library] where the illustrations have been correctly rotated, the latter file digitised from British Library: Printed Collections, IOL.1947.b.134
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=g4BCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Narrative of a Journey from Calcutta to Europe, by Way of Egypt, in the years 1827 and 1828''] by Mrs Charles Lushington [Sarah] 2nd edition 1829. Google Books. [http://www4.wlv.ac.uk/btw/authors/1091 "Sarah Lushington"] [http://www4.wlv.ac.uk/btw/ British Travel Writing]. The author, born 1789, travelled with her husband, Charles Lushington, and the "powerful administrator, traveller, and orientalist Mountstuart Elphinstone".
*''Narrative of a Journey Overland from England by the Continent of Europe, Egypt and the Red Sea to India, including a residence there and voyage home, in the years 1825, 26, 27, and 28 '' by Mrs Colonel Elwood [Anne Katharine] 1830. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=5vdR-eVGtP8C&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=QS2j9S3Z7hcC&pg=PR3 Volume II]. Google Books. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008861179 HathiTrust Digital Library versions], where images can be rotated. [http://www4.wlv.ac.uk/btw/authors/1048 Biographical details], British Travel Writing website indicates she was born 1796 and married Charles Elwood 1824.
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