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From Constantinople to the Home of Omar Khayyam / A. V. Williams Jackson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (528 p.) : over 250 photosContent type:
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  • 9781463207625
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF WORKS OF REFERENCE -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- I . ONCE AGAIN EASTWARD HO! -- II. FROM THE BLACK SEA TO THE CASPIAN -- III. BAKU, THE CITY OF OIL WELLS -- IV. THE OIL-FIELDS AND THE FIRE- TEMPLE OF BAKU -- V . OFF TO DERBENT -- VI. ON THE CASPIAN TO PERSIA -- VII. ALONG THE HIGHWAY TO THE SHAH'S CAPITAL -- VIII. TEHERAN AND A NEWER PERSIA -- IX. ON THE TRACK OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT -- X . THROUGH PLACES PASSED ON ALEXANDER'S ROUTE -- XI. THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN PASS OF AHUAN -- XII. DAMGHAN AND ITS ENVIRONS -- XIII. EXCURSIONS FROM DAMGHAN TO FRAT AND TAK -- XIV. AMONG HISTORIC SITES -- XV. OVER THE ANCIENT BATTLE-GROUND OF THE WARS BETWEEN IRAN AND TURAN -- XVI. ON THE ROAD TO NISHAPUR -- XVII. NISHAPUR, THE HOME OF OMAR KHAYYAM -- XVIII. THE TOMB OF OMAR KHAYYAM -- XIX. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF JSTISHAPUR -- XX. MASHAD, THE HOLY CITY OF PERSIA -- XXI. KUINED TUS, THE HOME OR THE POET FIRDAUSI -- XXII. AU REVOIR TO PERSIA -- GENERAL INDEX -- INDEX OF PASSAGES -- MAP OF PERSIA AND CENTRAL ASIA -- Backmatter
Summary: This is a travel book of historic and literary research through transcaucasia and Northern Persia, with over 250 pictures depicting sites and daily life.
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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF WORKS OF REFERENCE -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- I . ONCE AGAIN EASTWARD HO! -- II. FROM THE BLACK SEA TO THE CASPIAN -- III. BAKU, THE CITY OF OIL WELLS -- IV. THE OIL-FIELDS AND THE FIRE- TEMPLE OF BAKU -- V . OFF TO DERBENT -- VI. ON THE CASPIAN TO PERSIA -- VII. ALONG THE HIGHWAY TO THE SHAH'S CAPITAL -- VIII. TEHERAN AND A NEWER PERSIA -- IX. ON THE TRACK OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT -- X . THROUGH PLACES PASSED ON ALEXANDER'S ROUTE -- XI. THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN PASS OF AHUAN -- XII. DAMGHAN AND ITS ENVIRONS -- XIII. EXCURSIONS FROM DAMGHAN TO FRAT AND TAK -- XIV. AMONG HISTORIC SITES -- XV. OVER THE ANCIENT BATTLE-GROUND OF THE WARS BETWEEN IRAN AND TURAN -- XVI. ON THE ROAD TO NISHAPUR -- XVII. NISHAPUR, THE HOME OF OMAR KHAYYAM -- XVIII. THE TOMB OF OMAR KHAYYAM -- XIX. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF JSTISHAPUR -- XX. MASHAD, THE HOLY CITY OF PERSIA -- XXI. KUINED TUS, THE HOME OR THE POET FIRDAUSI -- XXII. AU REVOIR TO PERSIA -- GENERAL INDEX -- INDEX OF PASSAGES -- MAP OF PERSIA AND CENTRAL ASIA -- Backmatter

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This is a travel book of historic and literary research through transcaucasia and Northern Persia, with over 250 pictures depicting sites and daily life.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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