From the Black Sea through Persia and India / by Edwin Lord Weeks ; illustrated by the author.
1896
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Title
From the Black Sea through Persia and India / by Edwin Lord Weeks ; illustrated by the author.
Published
New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1896.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii pages, 437 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
Summary
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.
Note
Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.
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Series
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature.
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