A Journal of Three Months’ Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne : Introduction, Notes and Translation / edited by Russell Harris and Marjan Afsharian with contributions by Jeremy Archer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Iranian Studies Series | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2017Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (360 pages): illustrationsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789400602595
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Online resources: 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 An important historical document and eye-witness account pertaining to Iran, anthropology, area studies, study of 'orientalism' and colonialism, and for historians.
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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 An important historical document and eye-witness account pertaining to Iran, anthropology, area studies, study of 'orientalism' and colonialism, and for historians.

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