A Journal of Three Months’ Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne
Material type: TextSeries: Iranian Studies SeriesPublisher: Leiden Leiden University Press 2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- Introduction, Notes and Translation
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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 An important historical document and eye-witness account pertaining to Iran, anthropology, area studies, study of ‘orientalism’ and colonialism, and for historians.
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