Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan: Volume 1 - Including a Summer in Upper Karun Region a Visit to Nestorian Rayahs

Informationen zum Autor William de Lange studied Japanese language and culture at the universities of Leiden and Waseda. He is the author and translator of a number of books on Japanese history, culture, and language. Klappentext Volume 1 of Isabella Bird's account introduces the region's difficulties and fascinations for a nineteenth-century traveller. Zusammenfassung This book is compiled from a series of letters home by Isabella Bishop (née Bird) and recounts the most challenging of her many travels. In this first volume she explores Persia and encounters its people, giving fascinating anecdotes of nineteenth-century travel and day-to-day life in the region. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Basrah; 2. Baghdad; 3. Yakobiyeh; 4. Saripul-i-Zohab; 5. Kirmanshah; 6. Besitun; 7. Kûm; 8. Caravanserai; Notes on Tihran; 9. Tihran; 10. Kûm; 11. Kashan; 12. Julfa; 13. Julfa; 14. Julfa; Notes on the Bakhtiari Country; 15. Ardal.

Product details

• Authors: Isabella Bird, Isabella L. Bird, Isabella Lucy Bird, Bird Isabella
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2010
• EAN: 9781108014694
• ISBN: 978-1-108-01469-4
• No. of pages: 412
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Iran, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, HISTORY / Middle East / Iran, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Geographical discovery & exploration, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Middle Eastern history, Geographical discovery and exploration