Book Details
Title: Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan
Author: Isabella Bird
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Virago
Year: 1988
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 381
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0-86068-278-1
Battle Scars:
Overall acceptable condition.
Outside:
The cover is intact and in good condition. There is wear to the extremities (ends/corners/edges), with rubbing/shelf wear, a couple of chips and creasing to the corners.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean but they are yellowed/discoloured. There is a black spot on the bottom profile as pictured.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean with tanning/discolouration.
The pages are intact, with tanning throughout and a few spots/marks/small creases and tears here and there.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"In January 1890 Isabella Bird (1831-1904), aged fifty-nine and a four years a widow, began the toughest single journey of her life. Already a veteran of expeditions to the Rocky Mountains, Japan and Malaysia, her challenge this time was a series of punishing journeys into Persia and Kurdistan, Tibet and Ladakh, Korea and China.
Escorted by Major Herbet Sawyer, she left Baghdad and toiled for six weeks in appalling winter conditions, across uncharted territory to arrive 'nearly blind from fatigue' in Tehran. A month later she set out on another, less hardly exacting exploration of a remote part of Luristan. Exceptionally courageous and stoical, she yearned for the 'untrammelled freedom of the wilds' and relished every new experience- from wandering disguised in city bazaars to enduring squalid caravanserais, from meeting by chance the Shah of Persia to administering to the nomadic Bakhtiari Lurs. This vivid journal, to be followed in 1989 by Volume II, confirms Isabella Bird's reputation as 'the boldest, most perceptive and most romantic of Victorian travellers'. "
Book Details
Title: Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan
Author: Isabella Bird
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Virago
Year: 1988
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 381
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0-86068-278-1
Battle Scars:
Overall acceptable condition.
Outside:
The cover is intact and in good condition. There is wear to the extremities (ends/corners/edges), with rubbing/shelf wear, a couple of chips and creasing to the corners.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean but they are yellowed/discoloured. There is a black spot on the bottom profile as pictured.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean with tanning/discolouration.
The pages are intact, with tanning throughout and a few spots/marks/small creases and tears here and there.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"In January 1890 Isabella Bird (1831-1904), aged fifty-nine and a four years a widow, began the toughest single journey of her life. Already a veteran of expeditions to the Rocky Mountains, Japan and Malaysia, her challenge this time was a series of punishing journeys into Persia and Kurdistan, Tibet and Ladakh, Korea and China.
Escorted by Major Herbet Sawyer, she left Baghdad and toiled for six weeks in appalling winter conditions, across uncharted territory to arrive 'nearly blind from fatigue' in Tehran. A month later she set out on another, less hardly exacting exploration of a remote part of Luristan. Exceptionally courageous and stoical, she yearned for the 'untrammelled freedom of the wilds' and relished every new experience- from wandering disguised in city bazaars to enduring squalid caravanserais, from meeting by chance the Shah of Persia to administering to the nomadic Bakhtiari Lurs. This vivid journal, to be followed in 1989 by Volume II, confirms Isabella Bird's reputation as 'the boldest, most perceptive and most romantic of Victorian travellers'. "
