Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan: Volume 2
Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs

Volume 2 of Mrs. Bishop's Journeys concludes the adventure through Kurdistan, containing a passion for travelling that belies it difficulties.

Isabella Bird (Author)

9781108014700, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 July 2010

436 pages, 21 b/w illus. 1 map
21.6 x 2.5 x 14 cm, 0.55 kg

Isabella 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 her husband's death, she did missionary work in India and, in 1890, travelled to little-known parts of Turkey, Persia and Kurdistan. This was her most challenging journey, 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. Despite vicissitudes, her passion for travel is clear throughout. Volume 2 of this fascinating account continues into Kurdistan and towards the end on the Black Sea. The appendices include prayers from Mecca and a record of her itinerary, including journey times.

16. Ali-kuh
17. Kuh-i-Rang
18. Sahid
19. Mauri Zarin
20. Lake Irene
21. Burujird
22. Hamadan
23. Hamadan
24. Hamadan
25. Gaukhaud
26. Turkman
Notes on Protestant missions in Urmi
27. Urmi
Farewell impressions of Persia
28. Kochanes
29. Kochanes
30. Kortanis
31. Van
32. Bitlis
33. Pikhruz
34. Erzerum
35. Trebizond
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Middle Eastern history [HBJF1]