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9781108042031

Safar Nameh

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  • ISBN13:

    9781108042031

  • ISBN10:

    1108042031

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-01-14
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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This book of 'Persian Pictures' is the first published work of Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), the celebrated traveller, archaeologist, Orientalist and supporter of Arab independence. She first visited Persia in 1892, when a relative by marriage was British minister there, and published her impressions in a series of essays in 1894. Her subjects range from Roman ruins to Ottoman graves to shopping in the bazaars, and from the bustling life of cities to the isolation of the desert. Having studied the Persian language in preparation for her journey, she was able to enter into the life of the country, and especially of its women, more deeply than a casual visitor, and indeed her second publication was a free-verse translation of the fourteenth-century poet Hafiz. Bell captures a sense of delight at a mysterious land still marked by the traces of many of the great civilisations of the past.

Table of Contents

An eastern city
The tower of silence
In praise of gardens
The king of merchants
The Imam Hussein
The shadow of death
Dwellers in tents
Three noble ladies
The treasure of the king
Sheikh Hassan
A Persian host
A stage and a half
A bridle-path
Two palaces
The month of fasting
Requiescant in pace
The city of King Prusias
Shops and shopkeepers
A Murray of the first century
Travelling companions
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