ISBN:
9789087282820
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Iranian Studies Series
Keywords:
History
;
Iran
;
Isfahan
;
Persian language
Abstract:
A primary source on a journey to Persia by Captain John Compton Pyne in 1884 revealing the West’s fascination with the Middle East in Victorian times. The book includes an introduction by the editors and a transcription of the manuscript with notes and the original illustrations, mainly watercolours. An important historical document and eye-witness account pertaining to Iran, anthropology, area studies, study of ‘orientalism’ and colonialism, and for historians
Note:
English
