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Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan 2 Volume Paperback Set

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan 2 Volume Paperback Set

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan 2 Volume Paperback Set

Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs
Isabella Bird
July 2010
Multiple copy pack
9781108014717
AUD$113.95
inc GST
Multiple copy pack
2 Paperback books

    Isabella Bishop (née Bird) published her Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, compiled from a series of letters home, in 1891. 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.

    Product details

    July 2010
    Multiple copy pack
    9781108014717
    854 pages
    229 × 152 × 23 mm
    0.59kg
    Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC

    Table of Contents

    • Volume 1: Preface
    • 1. Basrah
    • 2. Baghdad
    • 3. Yakobiyeh
    • 4. Saripul-i-Zohab
    • 5. Kirmanshah
    • 6. Besitun
    • 7. Kûm
    • 8. Caravanserai
    • Notes on Tihran
    • 9. Tihran
    • 10. Kûm
    • 11. Kashan
    • 12. Julfa
    • 13. Julfa
    • 14. Julfa
    • Notes on the Bakhtiari Country
    • 15. Ardal. Volume 2:
    • 16. Ali-kuh
    • 17. Kuh-i-Rang
    • 18. Sahid
    • 19. Mauri Zarin
    • 20. Lake Irene
    • 21. Burujird
    • 22. Hamadan
    • 23. Hamadan
    • 24. Hamadan
    • 25. Gaukhaud
    • 26. Turkman
    • Notes on Protestant missions in Urmi
    • 27. Urmi
    • Farewell impressions of Persia
    • 28. Kochanes
    • 29. Kochanes
    • 30. Kortanis
    • 31. Van
    • 32. Bitlis
    • 33. Pikhruz
    • 34. Erzerum
    • 35. Trebizond
    • Appendix
    • Index.
      Author
    • Isabella Bird