Gertrude Bell

Persian Pictures

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Produktbeschreibung

'Persian Pictures' is both travelogue and meditation, an elegiac and beautifully observed account of a spellbinding land.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 174g
• ISBN-13: 9781843311690
• ISBN-10: 1843311690
• Artikelnr.: 21544084

Autorenporträt

As a scholar, historian, linguist, archaeologist, photographer, secret service agent and traveller, (1868–1926), Gertrude Bell was a hugely significant figure of her time. Her early travels were made in Europe and Persia; she made two round-the-world trips (1897–98 and 1902–03). She was instrumental in creating the new state of Iraq and as Honorary Director of Antiquities in Iraq, she established the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. Dr Liora Lukitz has for several years been a research fellow at the Centre for Middle East Studies at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction
Preface
1. An Eastern City
2. The Tower of Silence
3. In Praise of Gardens
4. The King of Merchants
5. The Imam Hussein
6. The Shadow of Death
7. Dwellers in Tents
8. Three Noble Ladies
9. The Treasure of the King
10. Sheikh Hassan
11. A Persian Host
12. A Stage and a Half
13. A Bridle-Path
14. Two Palaces
15. The Month of Fasting
16. Requiescant in Pace
17. The City of King Prusias
18. Shops and Shopkeepers
19. A Murray of the First Century
20. Travelling Companions