{"product_id":"journeys-in-persia-and-kurdistan-volume-1-including-a-summer-in-the-upper-karun-region-and-a-visit-to-the-nestorian-rayahs-paperback-9781108014694","title":"Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan: Volume 1; Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108014694","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eJourneys in Persia and Kurdistan: Volume 1\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIncluding a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVolume 1 of Isabella Bird's account introduces the region's difficulties and fascinations for a nineteenth-century traveller.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIsabella Bird (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108014694, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 July 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e412 pages, 15 b\/w illus.  1 map\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.52 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIsabella Bishop (née Bird) published her Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan in 1891, compiled from a series of letters home. 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. Volume 1 introduces the region, its people, and their customs and includes many evocative anecdotes. It also contains a glossary and maps.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Basrah\u003cbr\u003e 2. Baghdad\u003cbr\u003e 3. Yakobiyeh\u003cbr\u003e 4. Saripul-i-Zohab\u003cbr\u003e 5. Kirmanshah\u003cbr\u003e 6. Besitun\u003cbr\u003e 7. Kûm\u003cbr\u003e 8. Caravanserai\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Tihran\u003cbr\u003e 9. Tihran\u003cbr\u003e 10. Kûm\u003cbr\u003e 11. Kashan\u003cbr\u003e 12. Julfa\u003cbr\u003e 13. Julfa\u003cbr\u003e 14. Julfa\u003cbr\u003e Notes on the Bakhtiari Country\u003cbr\u003e 15. Ardal.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Middle Eastern history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Middle Eastern history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Middle%20Eastern%20history%20%5BHBJF1%5D%22\"\u003eHBJF1\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265936675096,"sku":"9781108014694","price":32.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108014694i.jpg?v=1694869328","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/journeys-in-persia-and-kurdistan-volume-1-including-a-summer-in-the-upper-karun-region-and-a-visit-to-the-nestorian-rayahs-paperback-9781108014694","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}