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Persia : through writers' eyes
Title
Persia : through writers' eyes / [compiled and edited by] David Blow.
ISBN
9780955010552 (pbk.)
0955010551 (pbk.)
Published
London : Eland, 2007.
Physical Description
403 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 16, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Tidings from Greece / Aeschylus
The Persian version / Robert Graves
Persian customs / Herodotus
The Persians as cultivators and gardeners / Xenophon
Persian decadence / Xenophon
The King's dinner / Athenaeus
The Persian army on the march / Quintus Curtius
Zoroastrian rites / Strabo
The fish-eaters of Makran / Strabo
The Parthians annihilate a Roman army / Plutarch
A Christian martyr (from the original Syriac) / Sebastian P. Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Zoroastrian funerary rites / Agathias
A learned barbarian? Impossible! / Agathias
Marco Polo in Persia / Marco Polo
Marco Polo hears a tale of the Assassins / Marco Polo
Persia through Arab eyes / Ibn Battuta
A Spanish knight at the court of Tamerlane / Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo
Clavijo becomes a burden on the peasantry / Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo
Clavijo meets Tamerlane / Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo
Clavijo dines with Tamerlane's women / Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo
A less than friendly welcome for an English merchant / Anthony Jenkinson
Shah Tahmasp : a mean old recluse / V. degli Alessandri
Shah Abbas I welcomes two Elizabethan adventurers / George Manwaring
A banquet with Shah Abbas I / Pietro Delle Valle
Ram fights and bull fights / Garcias de Silva Figueroa
A description of Shah Abbas's capital of Isfahan / Thomas Herbert
Celebrating the end of winter / Adam Olearius
A fireworks display / Adam Olearius
Hunting with the Shah / Adam Olearius
Persian poets / Adam Olearius
Doing business with the Shah / Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
The royal harem / Sir John Chardin
The New Year festival / Sir John Chardin
The Shiite mourning ceremonies of Muharram / Sir John Chardin
An encounter with the highway police / Jean de Thévenot
Trouble in the bath / Jean de Thévenot
Town comforts / John Fryer
A sign of royal favour : the robe of honour / M. Cornelius de Bruyn
Bandar Abbas : the European trading station in the Persian Gulf / M. Cornelius de Bruyn
A dangerous Russian embassy is received With ceremony / John Bell
The fall of the Safavids / Father Krusinski
A cruel and bloody tragedy / Father Krusinski
The last conqueror of the East / James Fraser
Nadir Shah's encampment / Jonas Hanway
Persian fashions / Jonas Hanway
Nadir's cruelty / Father Bazin
A Persian gymnasium / William Francklin
The tomb of Hafiz / William Francklin
Persian manners / William Francklin
The beauties of Shiraz / William Francklin
Persian prayers and meals / William Francklin
A British tribute to the Shiraz of Karim Khan Zand / Sir Harford Jones Brydges
The vizier's supper parties / Sir Harford Jones Brydges
A sad encounter / Sir Harford Jones Brydges
Hard times for the tribes / Sir John Malcolm
The Shiite clergy / Sir John Malcolm
The irrepressible Persians / Sir John Malcolm
English revenue-raising measures excite the Shah / James Morier
The sounds of Persia / James Morier
The splendour of the King of Kings / Sir Robert Ker Porter
The Turkoman slavers / James B. Fraser
A Qajar governor / Sir Henry Layard
At home with the Queen Mother / Lady Sheil
The bricklayers' song / Lady Sheil
An attempt on the Shah's life / Lady Sheil
A winter journey though Persian Kurdistan / Isabella Bird
In tribal country / Isabella Bird
A pilgrim caravan / George N. Curzon
The development of Tehran / George N. Curzon
The court levée of Nasir al-Din Shah / George N. Curzon
The problem of corruption / George N. Curzon
The garden of the King of Merchants / Gertrude Bell
A Qajar nobleman's home / Sattareh Farman Farmaian
A meeting with the new Shah, Reza Khan / Harold Nicholson
The coronation of Reza Shah / Harold Nicholson
The peculiar beauty of a Persian garden / Vita Sackville-West
Village weddings / Freya Stark
Architectural glories of Isfahan / Robert Byron
A Tehran childhood / Shusha Guppy
A legend of the Qanats / Anthony Smith
The stench of corruption / Ryszard Kapuscinski
Farewell to a broken shah / Anthony Parsons
The triumph of Khomeini / John Simpson
The Imam in valedictory mood / John Simpson
A work of the Great Satan stands trial / Azar Nafisi
The iconography of martyrdom / Jason Elliot
Elites and masses / Afshin Molavi
The politics of personal appearance / Afshin Molavi
The Tehran bazaar / Elaine Sciolino
A taxi drive in Isfahan / Christopher de Bellaigue.
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