Letters from a Distant Shore : : The Journal of Sarah Ann Breath / / ed. by E. Allen Richardson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• HerausgeberIn: Richardson, E. Allen,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Ottoman Travelers
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (108 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; A Note on Transcription of the Journal --; Introduction --; The Journal of Sarah Ann Breath --; Plates
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463216221; 9783111024141; 9783110663037; 9783110756708
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463216221
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by E. Allen Richardson.

In 1849, within days of her marriage to missionary printer Edward Breath, Sarah Ann Breath joined her husband to begin a four month journey to Oroomiah (modern Urumia), Persia. Her narrative, written in a highly descriptive flowing prose, describes the journey by sea, steamer and caravan to a Nestorian community. Breath’s journal pays careful attention to the Nestorian, Assyrian, and Kurdish communities she encountered. For Breath, the journey would transform her sensibilities, challenge her awareness of cultural differences and plunge her into a world whose dangers and opportunities she could never have imagined.