Across Coveted Lands - Volume I - Arnold Henry Savage Landor

Across Coveted Lands - Volume I

By Arnold Henry Savage Landor

  • Release Date: 2014-09-04
  • Genre: Travel Essays & Memoirs

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Across Coveted Lands - Volume I
Arnold Henry Savage Landor, english painter, explorer, writer and anthropologist (1865-1924)

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Table of Contents
-01- About this book
-02- THE START—THE TERRORS OF THE RUSSIAN CUSTOM-HOUSE
-03- KIEV—ITS PROTECTING SAINT
-04- BAKU—UNNECESSARY ANXIETY
-05- THE PORT OF ENZELI
-06- RESHT - IMPOSTORS - A VISIT TO THE HEAD MULLAH
-07- A JOURNEY BY LANDAU AND FOUR
-08- MENZIL AND THE WINDS
-09- FOUR THOUSAND FEET ABOVE SEA-LEVEL
-10- TEHERAN—THE SEAT OF THE KAJAR FAMILY
-11- GERMANY A STUMBLING-BLOCK TO RUSSIA'S AND ENGLAND'S SUPREMACY
-12- VISITS TO HIGH PERSIAN OFFICIALS
-13- THE PERSIAN ARMY
-14- CASH AND WEALTH
-15- THE BANKS OF PERSIA
-16- ILLEGITIMATE BANK-NOTES
-17- RUSSIA ON THE BRAIN
-18- EDUCATION—EDUCATED BUT NOT INSTRUCTED
-19- PERSIA'S INDUSTRIAL, MINERAL AND AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES
-20- A PERSIAN WEDDING—POLYGAMY
-21- PERSIAN WOMEN—THEIR ANATOMY
-22- THE SHAH'S BIRTHDAY—ILLUMINATIONS
-23- THE SHAH'S PALACE—THE FINEST COURT
-24- THE SELECTION OF A SERVANT
-25- SEVERE WIND—KUM, THE HOLY CITY
-26- KASHAN—SILK MANUFACTORIES
-27- CROSSING THE PASS
-28- MISSIONARY WORK IN PERSIA
-29- THE MISSION AMONG JEWS
-30- THE SQUARE OF ISFAHAN
-31- THE BRASS BAZAAR—MIRROR SHOP
-32- A CARPET FACTORY—CHILDREN AT WORK
-33- THE GRAND AVENUE OF ISFAHAN
-34- ISFAHAN THE COMMERCIAL HEART OF PERSIA
-35- MAHOMMERAH
-36- THE BRITISH CONSUL-GENERAL IN ISFAHAN
-37- KHUPAH—SUNKEN WELL
-38- BAMBIS—THE KASHSAN-YEZD HIGH ROAD
-39- YEZD—WATER SUPPLY—CLIMATE
-40- THE GUEBRES OF YEZD
-41- BADJIRS—BELOW THE SAND LEVEL
-42- DESOLATE SCENERY—ANAR
-43- KERMAN—THE ARK OR CITADEL
-44- THE MADRASSAH—PEACE ON ABRAHAM
-45- THE DESERTED CITY OF FARMIDAN