On the Shores of the Caspian
Subtitle: Commerce and Culture in Nineteenth Century Persia
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9781784531515
Subjects: Iran, description and travel; Europe, description and travel; Asia, description and travel
Description: "Sketches on the Shores of the Caspian is the product of the author's journey through the Caspian region as part of an expedition headed by his cousin James Brant, the British Consul at Erzeroum. Holmes provides a wonderfully intimate portrait of the country. Written in a very accessible style it nonetheless provides a wealth of detail on the towns, the climate, trade, military, people and culture as well as valuable information on the Russian presence in the region at the time. This very scarce volume is here published with a new Introduction by leading scholar of Asia, Morris Rossabi, Professor of Inner Asian History, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University and Distinguished Professor of History, Queens College, The City University of New York."--Bloomsbury Publishing.