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*[https://archive.org/details/kashmirinsunligh00tynd_0 ''Kashmir in Sunlight & Shade : a description of the beauties of the country, the life, habits, and humour of its inhabitants and an account of the gradual but steady rebuilding of a once down-trodden people''] by C E Tyndale-Biscoe, of the Church Missionary Society High School in Srinagar. 1922 Archive.org.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1922-routes-in-western-himalaya-kashmir-c-vol-1-punch-kashmir-ladakh-by-mason-s-pdf/ ''Routes in Western-Himalaya Kashmir &c Volume 1 Punch, Kashmir, Ladakh''] by Kenneth Mason. [''Púnch, Kashmír & Ladákh'']. Published under the direction of the Surveyor General of India, 1922 and printed at the Office of the Trigonometrical Survey of India, Dehra Dun. [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1929-routes-in-western-himalaya-kashmir-etc-vol-1-by-mason-s-pdf/ 2nd edition 1929, Revised and corrected]. Pdf downloads, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2190/page/n1/mode/2up 1922 Archive.org mirror version], [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2402/mode/2up 1929, Second edition], Archive.org mirror version.
*''Beyond Leh: A Shooting Trip in Ladakh, 1926'' by K. W. Dickson, wife of R, a Medical Officer. ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps''
:[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/60/5/377.full.pdf Part 1] 1933;60:5 377-392. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/60/6/456.full.pdf Part 2] 1933;60:6 456-461. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/1/61.full.pdf Part 3] 1933;61:1 61-70. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/2/133.full.pdf Part 4] 1933;61:2 133-144. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/4/304.full.pdf Part 5] 1933;61:4 304-309. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/61/5/379.full.pdf Part 6] 1933;61:5 379-393. Part 7 1933;61:6 ?-466: not online. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/2/142.full.pdf Part 8] 1934;62:2 142-150. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/3/224.full.pdf Part 9] 1934;62:3 224-233. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/5/365.full.pdf Part 10] 1934;62:5 365-376. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/62/6/430.full.pdf Part 11] 1934;62:6 430-440. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/2/127.full.pdf Part 12] 1934;63:2 127-134. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/3/193.full.pdf Part 13] 1934;63:3 193-206.
*[https://archive.org/details/1945-mountain-magic/mode/2up ''Mountain Magic''] by Eve Orme [1945]. About travel to Ladakh in 1926 with her Army officer husband who was on a shooting-trip.
*[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. Also available [https://archive.org/details/nightingale-pam-pam-nightingale-pamela-nightingale-macartney-at-kashgar-new-ligh Archive.org version]. Macartney’s wife Catherine wrote of her time at Kashgar in [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2943/page/n1/mode/2up ''An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan'' ] first published 1931. Archive.org, mirror from PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Datase. 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.
:*Includes a [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924023243391#page/n456/mode/1up Map], in two sections.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209132/page/n5/mode/2up ''Khyber Caravan: Through Kashmir, Waziristan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Northern India''] by Gordon Sinclair 1936. Archive.org. Also available [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1936-khyber-caravan-through-kashmir-waziristan-afghanistan-baluchistan-and-northern-india-by-sinclair-s-pdf/ PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]. If download button does not display, locate in Books/Indian Subcontinent/1936. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2641 Archive.org mirror version].
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1960-hired-to-kill-some-chapters-of-autobiography-by-morris-s-pdf/ ''Hired to Kill: Some Chapters of Autobiography''] by John Morris 1960. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3164 Archive.org mirror version]. Morris was an officer with the 3rd Gurkha Rifles from 1918 until 1934. Includes chapters when he was transport officer for the 1922 Mount Everest Expedition (page 134 onwards) and in 1927 he trekked in Chinese Turkestan (page 225 onwards).
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3220/page/n1/mode/2up ''British India's Northern Frontier 1865-1895. A Study in Imperial Policy''] by G J Alder 1963. Archive.org, mirror from PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3551 ''The Gilgit Game: The Explorers of the Western Himalayas 1865-95''] by John Keay 1979. Archive.org, mirror from PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/2004-kashmir-and-the-british-raj-1847-1947-by-huttenback-s-pdf/ ''Kashmir and the British Raj 1847-1947''] by Robert A Huttenback 2004. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR - Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). If download button does not display, locate in Books/Indian Subcontinent.
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1961-historical-genesis-of-indias-northern-frontier-problem-by-huttenback-s-pdf/ ''Historical Genesis of India’s Northern Frontier Problem''] by Robert A Huttenback 1961. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR - Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). If download button does not display, locate in Books/Indian Subcontinent or [http://pahar.in/?wpfb_dl=20138 Direct link]. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3182/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. Paper presented before the South Asia Colloquium, April 27, 1961.
