TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sykes,Ella C.
TI  - Through Persia on a Side-Saddle
T2  - Kiraz Historic Travels Archive
SN  - 9781593335588
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - Travel / Essays & Travelogues
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463212803
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ER  -