Attractively preserved in the strong quarter brown leather and leathercloth binding of the Johannesburg Book Club, with two added plain endpaper leaves front and back and sections reinfored. Minimum labels and stamps.
xxv + 302 pp of text and index + 48 pp of single-sided halftone plates.
\"History of Persia\" author Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes ends his historical survey foreword \"I now bring to a conclusion this foreword, in which I have attempted to create a background for [this] work of a gallant explorer, who is gifted with deep insight into the mind of the Oriental\".
In her own preface to her between-wars journey through Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Persia, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and Kurdistan, the author writes (1931) that instead of \"seeing the effect of a decade of intensive modernization . . . on traditionally conservative [people]\" she found in every country a state of conflict.\"
Dedicating her book to the Shah of Persia, the King of Iraq and the President of Turkey, Rosita Forbes extends her indebtedness to a long list of ambassadors, ministers, consuls, missionaries and other notables who eased her journey and provided her with valuable information.
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