Safar Nameh - Persian Pictures - A Book Of Travel
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Safar Nameh - Persian Pictures - A Book Of Travel

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Safar Nameh - Persian Pictures - A Book Of Travel

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"Safar Nameh - Persian Pictures - A Book Of Travel" is a 1894 account of Gertrude Bell's trip to Persia to visit her uncle, Sir Frank Lascelles, who was British minister at Tehran. Published two years after the trip, this vintage book chronicles her various travels through Persia with the help of amazing authentic photographs. An interesting piece of travel writing highly recommended for those with an interest in turn-of-the-century Persia. Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (1868–1926) was an English writer, political officer, traveller, archaeologist, and administrator. She became an important policy-maker in the British Empire as a result of her extensive knowledge and contacts, which she built up through her numerous travels in Mesopotamia, Greater Syria, Asia Minor, and Arabia. Other notable works by this author include: "Poems from the Divan of Hafiz" (1892), "The Desert and the Sown" (1907), and "Mountains of the Servants of God" (1910). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition with specially curated introductory material.

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SAFAR NAMEH

PERSIAN PICTURES
A Book Of Travel
By

GERTRUDE BELL

First published in 1894
This edition published by Read Books Ltd.
Copyright © 2019 Read Books Ltd.
This book is copyright and may not be
reproduced or copied in any way without
the express permission of the publisher in writing
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available
from the British Library
‘Warum bin ich vergĂ€nglich, O Zeus? so fragte die Schönheit.
Macht ich doch, sagte der Gott, nur das VergÀngliche schön.
Und die Liebe, die Blumen, der Tau und die Jugend vernahmens,
Alle gingen sie weg weinend von Jupiters Thron.’
-Goethe
‘Now, a traveller is a creature not always looking at sights—he remembers (how often!) the happy land of his birth; he has, too, his moments of humble enthusiasm about fire and food—about shade and drink.’
-Kinglake

Contents

PREFACE
THE TOWER OF SILENCE
IN PRAISE OF GARDENS
THE KING OF MERCHANTS
THE IMAM HUSSEIN
THE SHADOW OF DEATH
DWELLERS IN TENTS
THREE NOBLE LADIES
THE TREASURE OF THE KING
SHEIKH HASSAN
A PERSIAN HOST
A ...

Table of contents

  1. PREFACE
  2. THE TOWER OF SILENCE
  3. IN PRAISE OF GARDENS
  4. THE KING OF MERCHANTS
  5. THE IMAM HUSSEIN
  6. THE SHADOW OF DEATH
  7. DWELLERS IN TENTS
  8. THREE NOBLE LADIES
  9. THE TREASURE OF THE KING
  10. SHEIKH HASSAN
  11. A PERSIAN HOST
  12. A STAGE AND A HALF
  13. A BRIDLE-PATH
  14. TWO PALACES
  15. THE MONTH OF FASTING
  16. REQUIESCANT IN PACE
  17. THE CITY OF KING PRUSIAS
  18. SHOPS AND SHOPKEEPERS
  19. A MURRAY OF THE FIRST CENTURY
  20. TRAVELLING COMPANIONS