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Filed under: Asia -- Description and travel![[Info]](http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) In the Golden East: An Illustrated Journey in Eastern Wonderlands (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1908), by Charlotte Chaffee Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)- Oriental and Western Siberia: A Narrative of Seven Years' Explorations and Adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and Part of Central Asia (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1858), by Thomas Witlam Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Travels from St. Petersburg, in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia (1763), by John Bell
- Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia (second edition, 2 volumes; London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830), by James Silk Buckingham (page images at HathiTrust)
Filed under: Asia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800- The History of Persia (London: J. Brown, 1715), by Pedro Teixeira, trans. by John Stevens, contrib. by Muhammad ibn Khavandshah Mir Khvand and Turan Shah ibn Qutb al-Din (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
- A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, by Faxian, trans. by James Legge
- Travels in India, by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne, Translated From the Original French Edition of 1676 With a Biographical Sketch of the Author, Notes, Appendices, &c. (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1889), by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, trans. by V. Ball
- Travels in India, by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne, Translated From the Original French Edition of 1676 With a Biographical Sketch of the Author, Notes, Appendices, &c. (second edition; London: Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1925), by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, ed. by William Crooke, trans. by V. Ball
- The Travels of Marco Polo: The Complete Yule-Cordier Edition (2 volumes), by Marco Polo, ed. by Henry Yule and Henri Cordier
- Travels of Rabbi Petachia of Ratisbon (London: Trubner, 1856), by Pethathiah of Regensburg, trans. by A. Benisch, contrib. by William F. Ainsworth (PDF at seforimonline.org)
Filed under: Asia -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literature
Filed under: Asia, Central -- Description and travel- Across Coveted Lands: or, A Journey From Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, Overland (London: Macmillan and Co., 1902), by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Explorations in Turkestan, by Raphael Pumpelly
- The Face of Manchuria, Korea, and Russian Turkestan (New York: Duffield, 1911), by E. G. Kemp (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Heart of Asia, by Nicholas Roerich (HTML at roerich.org)
- In Russian Turkestan: A Garden of Asia and its People (London: G. Allen, 1903), by Annette M. B. Meakin (page images at Wisconsin)
- The Merv Oasis: Travels and Adventures East of the Caspian During the Years 1879-80-81, Including Five Months' Residence Among the Tekkés of Merv (2 volumes; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1883), by Edmond O'Donovan
- A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central Asia (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1877), by Fred Burnaby (page images at Wisconsin)
- Russian Central Asia, Including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva, and Merv (2 volumes; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1885), by Henry Lansdell
- Shambhala, by Nicholas Roerich (HTML at roerich.org)
- Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia (London: Macmillan and Co., 1920), by Ella Sykes and Percy Molesworth Sykes (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Through Russian Central Asia (New York: Macmillan, 1916), by Stephen Graham (page images at Wisconsin)
- Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor, and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1860), by Thomas Witlam Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
Filed under: China -- Description and travel- Beyond the Bund (New York: Payson and Clarke, c1927), by Philip Kerby (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Broken Journey: Wanderings From the Hoang-Ho to the Island of Saghalien and the Upper Reaches of the Amur River (London: T. W. Laurie Ltd., ca.1919), by Mary Gaunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Cathay and the Way Thither, ed. by Henry Yule (page images at Toyo Bunko Archive)
- China Bound: A Guide to Academic Life and Work in the PRC (1987 edition), by Karen Turner-Gottschang and Linda Reed (page images with commentary at NAP)
- China, the Long-Lived Empire (New York: The Century Co., 1900), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (multiple formats at archive.org)
- China Through the Stereoscope: A Journey Through the Dragon Empire at the Time of the Boxer Uprising (c1901), by James Ricalton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Chinese Empire: A Sequel to "Recollections of a Journey Through tartary and Thibet" (new edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859), by Evariste Régis Huc (page images at HathiTrust)
- Descripción de los Reinos, Costas, Puertos e Islas que hay Desde el Cabo de Buena Esperanza Hasta los Leyquios; Libro que Trata del Descubrimiento y Principio del Estrecho que se Llama de Magallanes; y Descrición de Parte del Japón (in Spanish; first part variously attributed to Barbosa or Magalhaes (Magellan); Madrid: Estab. Tip. de Torrent y Compañía, 1920), ed. by Antonio Blázquez y Delgado Aguilera, contrib. by Duarte Barbosa, Fernão de Magalhães, and Ginés de Mafra (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Diplomatist's Wife in Many Lands (2 volumes; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1910), by Mrs. Hugh Fraser (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fourteen Months in Canton (London: Macmillan and Co., 1880), by Mrs. John Henry Gray
- The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1883), by Isabella L. Bird (Gutenberg text)
- The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1883), by Isabella L. Bird (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Houseboat Days in China, by J. O. P. Bland (illustrated HTML at talesofoldchina.com)
- Journal of Three Voyages Along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832, & 1833, With Notices of Siam, Corea, and the Loo-Choo Islands, by Karl Friedrich August Gutzlaff (PDF files in Singapore)
- A Naturalist in Western China with Vasculum, Camera, and Gun: Being Some Account of Eleven Years' Travel, Exploration, and Observation in the More Remote Parts of the Flowery Kingdom (2 volumes; New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1913), by Ernest Henry Wilson, contrib. by Charles Sprague Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
- Newfoundland to Cochin, China, By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1892), by Ethel Gwendoline Moffat Vincent, contrib. by Howard Vincent (multiple formats at archive.org)
- On a Chinese Screen (London: W. Heinemann, 1922), by W. Somerset Maugham (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Pocket Guide to China (1943), by United States Army Service Forces Special Service Division (PDF at archive.org)
- The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture, 1776-1876, by John Rogers Haddad (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)
- The Story of China (c1922), by R. Van Bergen (illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project)
- Travels and Adventures of an Officer's Wife in India, China, and New Zealand (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1864), by Mrs. Elizabeth Muter (page images at HathiTrust)
- Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China (2 volumes; London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, n.d.), by Evariste Régis Huc, trans. by William Hazlitt
- Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China During the Years 1844-5-6 (2 volumes in 1; Chicago: Open Court Pub. Co., 1900), by Evariste Régis Huc, trans. by William Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Wanderings in China (new edition; Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1888), by C. F. Gordon Cumming
- A Woman in China (London: T. Werner Laurie, ca.1914), by Mary Gaunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and Among the Man-Tze of the Somo Territory (2 volumes; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: J. Murray, 1900), by Isabella L. Bird (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Year in China; and a Narrative of Capture and Imprisonment, When Homeward Bound, on Board the Rebel Pirate Florida (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1864), by Martha Noyes Williams, contrib. by William Cullen Bryant (page images at Google)
Filed under: India -- Description and travel- Anabasis of Alexander; Indica (1893 translation), by Arrian, trans. by Edward James Chinnock (HTML at websfor.org)
- Arabia, Egypt, India: A Narrative of Travel (London and Belfast: W. Mullan and son, 1879), by Isabel Burton
- Behind the Bungalow, by Edward Hamilton Aitken (Gutenberg text)
- Camp and Cantonment: A Journal of Life in India in 1857-1859, With Some Account of the Way Thither; To Which is Added, A Short Narrative of the Pursuit of the Rebels in Central India (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865), by Georgiana Theodosia Fitzmoor-Halsey Paget and Leopold Grimston Paget (page images at Google)
- Cathay and the Way Thither, ed. by Henry Yule (page images at Toyo Bunko Archive)
- Chow-Chow: Being Selections from a Journal Kept in India, Egypt, and Syria (second edition, 2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1857), by Amelia Fitz Clarence Cary Falkland (page images at HathiTrust)
- Descripción de los Reinos, Costas, Puertos e Islas que hay Desde el Cabo de Buena Esperanza Hasta los Leyquios; Libro que Trata del Descubrimiento y Principio del Estrecho que se Llama de Magallanes; y Descrición de Parte del Japón (in Spanish; first part variously attributed to Barbosa or Magalhaes (Magellan); Madrid: Estab. Tip. de Torrent y Compañía, 1920), ed. by Antonio Blázquez y Delgado Aguilera, contrib. by Duarte Barbosa, Fernão de Magalhães, and Ginés de Mafra (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Diary of a Civilian's Wife in India, 1877-1882 (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1884), by E. Augusta King
- The Englishwoman in India: Containing Information for the Use of Ladies Proceeding to, or Residing in, the East Indies, on the Subjects of Their Outfit, Furniture, Housekeeping, the Rearing of Children, Duties and Wages of Servants, Management of the Stables, and Arrangements for Travelling; To Which are Added Receipts for Indian Cookery (London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1864), by A Lady Resident (multiple formats at Google)
- From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan, by H. P. Blavatsky
- A Girl's Winter in India (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph and Co., c1892), by Mary Thorn Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Glimpse of India: Being a Collection of Extracts from the Letters of Dr. Clara A. Swain (New York: James Pott and Company, 1909), by Clara A. Swain (page images at Drexel)
- "Gup": Sketches of Anglo-Indian Life and Character (London: R. Bentley, 1868), by Florence Marryat (page images at HathiTrust)
- How I Shot My Bears: or, Two Years' Tent Life in Kullu and Lahoul (London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1893), by Mrs. Richard Humphry Tyacke
- In the Himalayas and on the Indian Plains (London: Chatto and Windus, 1884), by C. F. Gordon Cumming
- India Illustrated: Being a Collection of Pictures of the Cities of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, Together With a Selection of the Most Interesting Buildings and Scenes Throughout India (pages disassembled; originally Bombay: Bennett, Coleman and Co., ca. 1905) (at digital.lib.uh.edu)
- Journal of a Residence in India (second edition; Edinburgh: A. Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813), by Maria Callcott (multiple formats at Google)
- The Journal of Mrs. Fenton: A Narrative of Her Life in India, the Isle of France (Mauritius) and Tasmania During the Years 1826-1830 (London: Edward Arnold, 1901), by Mrs. Fenton (page images at Google; US access only)
- Letters From India (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley and Son, 1872), by Emily Eden, ed. by Eleanor Eden, contrib. by Frances Eden (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Life and Travel in India: Being Recollections of A Journey Before the Days of Railroads (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates; London: Trubner and Co., c1884), by Anna Harriette Leonowens (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Life and Travel in India: Being Recollections of A Journey Before the Days of Railroads (illustrated; Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates and Co., 1897), by Anna Harriette Leonowens (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Life in the Mission, the Camp, and the Zenáná: or, Six Years in India (second edition, 2 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1854), by Mrs. Colin Mackenzie
- The Lusiad: or, The Discovery of India: An Epic Poem (London: G. Bell, 1877), by Luís de Camões, ed. by Edward Richmond Hodges, trans. by William Julius Mickle (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Dane Keith Kennedy (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
- Mainly East (in Prose, Perhaps Prosey) (London: Hutchinson and Co., ca. 1922), by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie
- A Month in a Dandi: A Woman's Wanderings in Northern India (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co.; Hull: W. Andrews and Co., ca. 1891), by Christina Sinclair Bremner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- My Visits to the Goldfields in South-East Wynaad (London: Chapman and Hall, 1881), by Samuel Jennings (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)
- 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 (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830), by Anne Elwood
- Notes of a Tour in India and Ceylon During the Winter of 1888-89 (London: Women's printing society, 1889), by Helen C. Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Old World Through Old Eyes: Three Years in Oriental Lands (New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by Mary S. Ware
- Olivia in India (written as "O. Douglas"), by Anna Buchan (Gutenberg text)
- The Original Letters From India of Mrs. Eliza Fay (new edition, with introduction and notes; Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1908), by Eliza Fay, ed. by Walter K. Firminger
- Our Tour in Southern India (London: F. V. White and Co., 1883), by Harriet Georgiana Maria Murray-Aynsley
- Our Viceregal Life in India: Selections From My Journal, 1884-1888 (2 volumes; London: J. Murray, 1889), by Harriot Georgina Blackwood Dufferin and Ava (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Our Viceregal Life in India: Selections From My Journal, 1884-1888 (fourth thousand, 2 volumes; London: J. Murray, 1890), by Harriot Georgina Blackwood Dufferin and Ava
- Our Visit to Hindostán, Kashmir, and Ladakh (London: Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1879), by Harriet Georgiana Maria Murray-Aynsley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan, by Harry De Windt (Gutenberg text)
- Roving East and Roving West, by E. V. Lucas (Gutenberg text)
- Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan, With Sketches of Anglo-Indian Society (3 volumes; London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1835), by Emma Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
- Six Months in India (2 volumes; London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868), by Mary Carpenter
- Six Years in India: Delhi, the City of the Great Mogul; With an Account of the Various Tribes in Hindostan: Hindoos, Sikhs, Affghans, Etc. (new edition of "The Mission, the Camp, and the Zenana"; London: R. Bentley, 1857), by Mrs. Colin Mackenzie
- Six Years in India: or, Sketches of India and its People. As Seen by a Lady Missionary (New York: Carlton and Porter, c1866), by Mrs. E. J. Humphrey (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sketches in India (London: John Letts, 1824), by William Huggins (page images at Google)
- Sporting Sketches during a Short Stay in Hindustane (critical edition of an 1814 manuscript), by Edward Ellerker Williams and Tilar J. Mazzeo (HTML at Romantic Circles)
- A Sportswoman in India: Personal Adventures and Experiences of Travel in Known and Unknown India (London: Hutchinson and Co.; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1900), by Isabel Savory (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Sunny Memories of an Indian Winter (London: Walter Scott, 1898), by Sara H. Dunn (page images at Google; US access only)
- Through Town and Jungle: Fourteen Thousand Miles A-Wheel Among the Temples and People of the Indian Plain (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904), by William Hunter Workman and Fanny Bullock Workman (page images at Google; US access only)
- Travels and Adventures of an Officer's Wife in India, China, and New Zealand (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1864), by Mrs. Elizabeth Muter (page images at HathiTrust)
- "Up the Country": Letters Written to Her Sister From the Upper Provinces of India (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1866), by Emily Eden (page images at HathiTrust)
- Voyages and Travels in India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, in the Years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806 (3 volumes; London: Printed for W. Miller, 1809), by George Annesley Mountnorris (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
- Wanderings of a Pilgrim, in Search of the Picturesque, During Four-and-Twenty Years in the East; With Revelations of Life in the Zenana (2 volumes; London: P. Richardson, 1850), by Fanny Parkes Parlby
- Wayside India (Waterford, UK: Downey and Co., 1907), by Maud Power (page images at Google; US access only)
- Western India In 1838 (2 volumes; London: Saunders and Otley, 1839), by Marianne Young
- Winter India (New York: The Century Co., 1903), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Within the Purdah; Also, In the Zenana Homes of Indian Princes, and Heroes and Heroines of Zion: Being the Personal Observations of a Medical Missionary in India (New York: Eaton and Mains; Cincinnati: Curts and Jennings, c1898), by Saleni Armstrong-Hopkins (page images at Drexel)
- The Wonderland of India (New York: Missionary Education Movement of United States and Canada, c1922), by Helen M. Rockey and Harold B. Hunting (page images at Drexel)
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