From the Black Sea through Persia and India
By: by Edwin Lord Weeks ; illustrated by the author
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Published: 1896
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
Subjects: Description and travel; Social life and customs
Description: A travel memoir in diary-style. The author explains in the preface that he did not intend to take the route described here, but civil war in Afghanistan and a cholera epidemic forced him to travel through Kurdistan and Persia. Some hand-drawn illustrations provide images of the author's journey. Special chapters at the end include the author's commentary on Hinduism and Islam in India, Indian art, and impressions of everyday life for English people in India.
Notes: Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.