This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...are covered with paintings representing that monarch sitting in high durbar, surrounded by his sons, the officers of his court, and the ambassadors of foreign Powers. Here there is plenty to commend. The French ambassador is the exact type of a soldier and gentleman of that country and period; Sir John M ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...are covered with paintings representing that monarch sitting in high durbar, surrounded by his sons, the officers of his court, and the ambassadors of foreign Powers. Here there is plenty to commend. The French ambassador is the exact type of a soldier and gentleman of that country and period; Sir John M alcolm looks somewhat sallow, as befits an Indian official, and his comparative youthfulness recalls the rapid promotion of those days; while his rival, Sir Harford Jones, the Parliament's man, is a genuine Britisher, florid and stolid, with sandy mutton-chop whisker and round blonde face beaming with ineffable complacency. The faces of the Persian officials, again, are full of character. One particularly attracted my attention; it was the likeness of the governor of Laristan, a stout jolly personage, with a humorous twinkle in his eye--a man, I am sure, who loved a good glass and a good story. The Prince of Gurjistan reminds one of losses suffered by Persia on her north-western frontier since the days when Georgia was vassal to Fath Ali Shah. Among the crowd of faces in various tints from brown to fair, the copper phiz of Tippoo Sultan's envoys looks unmistakably Indian. On first landing in Persia, one is much struck by the difference between the people of the country and Indian Mussalmans. The contrast is forgotten as one becomes habituated to Persian features and manners, but revives in full force at the sight of such a picture as this, where the high-class Indian munshi is depicted to the life, side by side with Persians of similar rank and calling. Other palaces are Qasr-i-Qajar, half-way between Teheran and Gulahek; Dushan Tappa, or the Rabbit Hill, perched uncomfortably on a rock in the plain eastward of Teheran; and a smaller lodge high...
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Add this copy of Six Months in Persia; Volume 2 to cart. $20.57, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2022 by Legare Street Press.
Add this copy of Six Months in Persia; Volume 2 to cart. $30.01, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2022 by Legare Street Press.
