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Through Persia on a Side-Saddle / Ella C. Sykes.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Kiraz Historic Travels ArchivePublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (341 p.) : 9Content type:
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  • 9781593335588
  • 9781463212803
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- THROUGH PERSIA ON A SIDE-SADDLE -- CHAPTER I. THE JOURNEY TO THE CAPITAL OF PERSIA -- CHAPTER II. TEHRAN -- CHAPTER III. FROM THE CAPITAL TO FATIMA'S SHRINE AT KOOM -- CHAPTER IV. AS FAR AS KASHAN -- CHAPTER V. TO THE GOAL OF OUR JOURNEY VIÂ YEZD -- CHAPTER VI. HOUSEKEEPING AT KERMAN -- CHAPTER VII. KERMAN AND ITS ENVIRONS -- CHAPTER VIII. OLLA PODRIDA -- CHAPTER IX. FOUR VISITORS AND A MAID -- CHAPTER X. OUR STAY IN THE HILLS -- CHAPTER XI. OUR SOCIAL CIRCLE AT KERMAN -- CHAPTER XII. ARABABAD AND SAGOTCH, PERSIAN LADIES AND SOME PERSIAN CUSTOMS -- CHAPTER XIII. LAST MONTHS AT KERMAN, AND THE START TO BALUCHISTAN -- CHAPTER XIV. THROUGH THE DESERT TO BAMPUR AND PAHRA -- CHAPTER XV. TO KUHAK AND THE FRONTIER COMMISSION -- CHAPTER XVI. WITH THE PERSO-BALUCII BOUNDARY COMMISSION -- CHAPTER XVII. TO QUETTA WITH THE BRITISH COMMISSION -- CHAPTER XVIII. UP THE PERSIAN GULF TO BUSREH -- CHAPTER XIX. THE KARUN RIVER AND AHWAZ -- CHAPTER XX. FROM BUSREH TO TEHRAN AGAIN -- CHAPTER XXI. TEHRAN REVISITED, AND THE JOURNEY HOME TO ENGLAND
Summary: This written travelogue of Ella Sykes’ historic first journey across central Asia has been considered a classic of women’s studies as well as a historic travel account. Detailing the impressions of Sykes while traveling with her diplomat brother through central Asia in the nineteenth century, this illustrated volume has a wide appeal to those interested in Iran as it used to be.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- THROUGH PERSIA ON A SIDE-SADDLE -- CHAPTER I. THE JOURNEY TO THE CAPITAL OF PERSIA -- CHAPTER II. TEHRAN -- CHAPTER III. FROM THE CAPITAL TO FATIMA'S SHRINE AT KOOM -- CHAPTER IV. AS FAR AS KASHAN -- CHAPTER V. TO THE GOAL OF OUR JOURNEY VIÂ YEZD -- CHAPTER VI. HOUSEKEEPING AT KERMAN -- CHAPTER VII. KERMAN AND ITS ENVIRONS -- CHAPTER VIII. OLLA PODRIDA -- CHAPTER IX. FOUR VISITORS AND A MAID -- CHAPTER X. OUR STAY IN THE HILLS -- CHAPTER XI. OUR SOCIAL CIRCLE AT KERMAN -- CHAPTER XII. ARABABAD AND SAGOTCH, PERSIAN LADIES AND SOME PERSIAN CUSTOMS -- CHAPTER XIII. LAST MONTHS AT KERMAN, AND THE START TO BALUCHISTAN -- CHAPTER XIV. THROUGH THE DESERT TO BAMPUR AND PAHRA -- CHAPTER XV. TO KUHAK AND THE FRONTIER COMMISSION -- CHAPTER XVI. WITH THE PERSO-BALUCII BOUNDARY COMMISSION -- CHAPTER XVII. TO QUETTA WITH THE BRITISH COMMISSION -- CHAPTER XVIII. UP THE PERSIAN GULF TO BUSREH -- CHAPTER XIX. THE KARUN RIVER AND AHWAZ -- CHAPTER XX. FROM BUSREH TO TEHRAN AGAIN -- CHAPTER XXI. TEHRAN REVISITED, AND THE JOURNEY HOME TO ENGLAND

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This written travelogue of Ella Sykes’ historic first journey across central Asia has been considered a classic of women’s studies as well as a historic travel account. Detailing the impressions of Sykes while traveling with her diplomat brother through central Asia in the nineteenth century, this illustrated volume has a wide appeal to those interested in Iran as it used to be.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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