A Journal of Three Months? Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne
Publisher: Leiden University Press
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789087282622; 9789087282820
Description: 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 An important historical document and eye-witness account pertaining to Iran, anthropology, area studies, study of ?orientalism?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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