Through Persia on a Side-Saddle / / Ella C. Sykes.
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 i...
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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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| Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Kiraz Historic Travels Archive
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (341 p.) :; 9 |
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Table of 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