From Constantinople to the Home of Omar Khayyam /

From Constantinople to the Home of Omar Khayyam / / 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.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
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Jackson, A. V. Williams,
Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2001]
©2001
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (528 p.) :; over 250 photos
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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