Safar Nameh
Author : Gertrude Lowthian Bell
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,60 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Iran
ISBN :
Author : Gertrude Lowthian Bell
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,60 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Iran
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Author : Gertrude Lowthian Bell
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,99 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Iran
ISBN :
Author : Gertrude Bell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 49,55 MB
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0857734970
"Are we the same, I wonder, when all our surroundings, association, acquaintances are changed? I conclude that it is not the person who danced with you at Mansfield St who writes to you today from Persia. Yet there are dregs, English sediment at the bottom of my sherbet, and perhaps they flavour it more than I think. I write to you of Persia: I am not me, that is my only excuse. I am only I am merely pouring out for you some of what I have received in the last two months." When Gertrude Bell's uncle was appointed Minister in Tehran in 1891, she declared that the great ambition of her life was to visit Persia. Several months later, she did. And so began a lifetime of travel and a lifelong enchantment with what she saw as the romance of the East, which evolved into a deep understanding of its cultures and people. This vivid and impressionistic series of sketches, her first foray into writing, is an evocative meditation that moves between Persia's heroic past and its long decline; the public face of Tehran and the otherworldly 'secret, mysterious life of the East', the lives of its women, its lush, enclosed gardens; from the bustling cities to the lonely wastelands of Khorasan.
Author : Gertrude Lowthian Bell
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 23,19 MB
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This detailed study of the early Mohammadan Architecture explores the fortress of Al-Ukhaidir situated in the south of Karbala, Iraq. It is an enormous, rectangular fortress built in 775 A.D. with a remarkable defensive style and represents Abbasid architectural innovation in the designs of its courtyards, residences, and mosque. The writer covers the fascinating topic in simple words, free of any technicalities for the general readers to grasp the information quickly. Contents include: Ukhaiḍir Qṣair, Mudjḍah, And 'Aṭshân Qaṣr-I-shîrîn Genesis Of the Early Mohammadan Palace The Façade The Mosque The Date of Ukhaiḍir
Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3477 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135456623
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Juliet Radhayrapetian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1315515393
For centuries Iran hosted numerous travellers and visitors of diverse nationalities and backgrounds. Many of these travellers left behind documents in which they recorded their observations during their residence in Iran, and these embody a vast range of firsthand information about the land and its people at different periods of time. This book, first published in 1990, takes as its subjects the nature and history of Iranian folk narrative scholarship. The contributions of travellers are given their due recognition as important source documents.
Author : Mary F. McVicker
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 28,92 MB
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1476603073
The past quarter-century has seen a number of biographies and anthologies on women travelers but to date there has been little comprehensive reference work done on the travelers themselves. Some of the women were eccentric, many were very adventurous, some were in search of a different world... British women make up the largest portion of the book's focus--these particular adventurers being backed in many cases by family money, scientific inquiry, and the ready availability of the British seafaring tradition. Entries include the woman's family background, her educational history, and a summary of her world travels, with in many cases evocative extracts from their writings (many are literary gems).
Author : Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 21,37 MB
Release : 2024-10-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0755647076
The cinema of Iran is celebrated both locally and internationally, yet elements of this diverse field remain comparatively understudied. This book brings together a diverse range of scholars to explore contemporary Iranian cinema in its local and international contexts from a range of perspectives including aesthetic, socio-political comparative approaches. Its chapters analyse the work of well-known filmmakers on the international film circuit such as Abbas Kiarostami, Mohammad Reza Aslani and Jaffar Panahi, as well as internationally lesser-known domestic films such as those of Kamal Tabrizi and the 'Sacred Defence' films of the Iran-Iraq war. The book further widens its scope with chapters which also examine the material practices of the Iranian film industry itself, including chapters on the process by which Iranian films become 'accessible' to international audience. Finally, it considers, too, representations of Iranians in foreign cinemas, and how these have in turn affected Iranian films.
Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2288 pages
File Size : 32,12 MB
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1315459728
This nine volume set provides an overview of many aspects of Middle Eastern language and literature. These books range from discussions of the Arabic language and its publications, to translations of some of the region’s most important early works, to a survey of folk tales and modern literature.