Curzon, George Nathaniel. 1896. The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus. Royal Geographical Society, London. Reprint: Elibron Classics Series, Adamant Media Corporation. 2005. ISBN1-4021-5983-8 (pbk); ISBN1-4021-3090-2 (hbk).
King, John 1989. Karakoram Highway : the high road to China. Hawthorn, Victoria, Lonely Planet Publications. ISBN0-86442-065-X
Episode 13/30 of the NHK television series The Silk Road, a series originally shown in Japan in the early 1980s.
