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Title A Journal of Three Months' Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne : Introduction, Notes and Translation
Published Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource
Series Iranian studies series
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Summary 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 An important historical document and eye-witness account pertaining to Iran, anthropology, area studies, study of 'orientalism' and colonialism, and for historians
Analysis History
Notes Knowledge Unlatched 100444
In English
SUBJECT Pyne, John Compton -- Travel
Subject History.
History
history (discipline)
HISTORY -- General.
History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017445431
ISBN 9789087282622
9087282621
9789087282820
9087282826