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'Through Persia on a side-saddle' [162] (195/360)
The record is made up of 1 volume (313 pages). It was created in 1901. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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162 THROUGH PERSIA ON A SIDE-SADDLE
ings by insisting on shaking hands with us, sending the
Prince into fits of laughter by this very ordinary action,
and was then regaled with glasses of cherry-brandy and
bits of bread smeared with mustard ; but what appeared
to cause the most amusement was when he was given a
plate of pillau and told to eat it with a spoon. Habit was
too strong for him, however, and we were expected to see
something extremely funny in the sight of Mollah Lung
devouring rice in the ordinary Persian way. To my mind
he was one of the poorest of Court fools, and only became
bearable when he displayed a Persian natural history book,
profusely illustrated with such grotesque caricatures of
whales, sharks, octopuses, and other denizens of the deep,
and the letterpress teeming with such astounding exaggera
tions and inaccuracies that we felt sorry to think this was
one of the ordinary text-books of the youth of Persia.
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Through Persia on a side-saddle.
With an introduction by Major-General Sir Frederic John Goldsmid, CB, KCSI.
Author: Ella C Sykes
Publication details: London, John Macqueen, 1901.
Physical description: xvi, 313 p; 8º.
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- 1 volume (313 pages)
- Arrangement
This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings ans page references. There is also a list of illustrations giving titles and page references.
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Dimensions: 225mm x 150mm
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- English in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- ORW.1986.a.1864
- Title
- 'Through Persia on a side-saddle'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:2, 2a:2b, 3:16, 1:16, 16a:16b, 17:36, 36a:36b, 37:156, 156a:156b, 157:196, 196a:196b, 197:224, 224a:224b, 225:236, 236a:236b, 237:254, 254a:254b, 255:296, 296a:296b, 297:314, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
- Author
- Sykes, Ella Constance
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- Public Domain