Through Persia on a Side-Saddle / / Ella C. Sykes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Sykes, Ella C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Kiraz Historic Travels Archive
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (341 p.) :; 9
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; PREFACE --; INTRODUCTION --; THROUGH PERSIA ON A SIDE-SADDLE --; CHAPTER I. THE JOURNEY TO THE CAPITAL OF PERSIA --; CHAPTER II. TEHRAN --; CHAPTER III. FROM THE CAPITAL TO FATIMA'S SHRINE AT KOOM --; CHAPTER IV. AS FAR AS KASHAN --; CHAPTER V. TO THE GOAL OF OUR JOURNEY VIÂ YEZD --; CHAPTER VI. HOUSEKEEPING AT KERMAN --; CHAPTER VII. KERMAN AND ITS ENVIRONS --; CHAPTER VIII. OLLA PODRIDA --; CHAPTER IX. FOUR VISITORS AND A MAID --; CHAPTER X. OUR STAY IN THE HILLS --; CHAPTER XI. OUR SOCIAL CIRCLE AT KERMAN --; CHAPTER XII. ARABABAD AND SAGOTCH, PERSIAN LADIES AND SOME PERSIAN CUSTOMS --; CHAPTER XIII. LAST MONTHS AT KERMAN, AND THE START TO BALUCHISTAN --; CHAPTER XIV. THROUGH THE DESERT TO BAMPUR AND PAHRA --; CHAPTER XV. TO KUHAK AND THE FRONTIER COMMISSION --; CHAPTER XVI. WITH THE PERSO-BALUCII BOUNDARY COMMISSION --; CHAPTER XVII. TO QUETTA WITH THE BRITISH COMMISSION --; CHAPTER XVIII. UP THE PERSIAN GULF TO BUSREH --; CHAPTER XIX. THE KARUN RIVER AND AHWAZ --; CHAPTER XX. FROM BUSREH TO TEHRAN AGAIN --; CHAPTER XXI. TEHRAN REVISITED, AND THE JOURNEY HOME TO ENGLAND
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463212803; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463212803
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ella C. Sykes.

This written travelogue of Ella Sykes’ historic first journey across central Asia has been considered a classic of women’s studies as well as a historic travel account. Detailing the impressions of Sykes while traveling with her diplomat brother through central Asia in the nineteenth century, this illustrated volume has a wide appeal to those interested in Iran as it used to be.