Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan : Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1108014690
ISBN-13
9781108014694
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 1st, 2010
Print length
412 Pages
Weight
530 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 14.00 x 2.50 cms
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This book is compiled from a series of letters home by Isabella Bishop (née Bird) and recounts the most challenging of her many travels. In this first volume she explores Persia and encounters its people, giving fascinating anecdotes of nineteenth-century travel and day-to-day life in the region.
Isabella Bishop (nee Bird) published her Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan in 1891, compiled from a series of letters home. Recommended an open-air life from an early age as a cure for physical and nervous difficulties, Bird toured the United States and Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the Far East. After her marriage, and the death of her husband in 1886, she did missionary work in India and then, in 1890, travelled to little-known parts of Turkey, Persia and Kurdistan in the company of Major Herbert Sawyer of the Indian Army. This came to be the hardest journey of her experience, with extremes of temperature and harsh living conditions for the sixty-year-old, although she was able to provide medical care for the local people. Volume 1 introduces the region, its people, and their customs and includes many evocative anecdotes. It also contains a glossary and maps.
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