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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Jackson, A. V. Williams,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (528 p.) :; over 250 photos
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463207625; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463207625
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: A. V. Williams Jackson.

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