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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From Constantinople to the Home of Omar Khayyam
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1Table of contents
- 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