Naghmeh Sohrabi

Taken for Wonder

Nineteenth-Century Travel Accounts from Iran to Europe

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Produktbeschreibung

Taken for Wonder focuses on nineteenth-century travelogues authored by Iranians in Europe and argues for a methodological shift in the way scholars interpret travel writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780199829705
• ISBN-10: 0199829705
• Artikelnr.: 34224894

Autorenporträt

Naghmeh Sohrabi is Lecturer in History at Brandeis University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Notes on Transliteration
* Chapter 1: Writing Travel, Making Genre
* Chapter 2: The Reluctant Tourist: Mirza Abul Hasan Khan and his 'Book
of Wonder'
* Chapter 3: Long Day's Journey into Night: Mirza Fattah Khan
Garmrudi's accounts of Europe 68
* Chapter 4: The Traveling King: Nasir al-Din Shah and his Books of
Travel
* Chapter 5: A Darvish and a Merchant walk into Europe: The
Popularization of Travel of Writing 155
* Conclusion
* Bibliography