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'Through Persia on a side-saddle' [‎22] (51/360)

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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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22 THROUGH PERSIA ON A SIDE-SADDLE
On this occasion we were ushered into a grand European
drawing-room, where the cut-glass chandeliers and silk-
shaded lamps, the handsomely upholstered chairs and
couches, gave me a feeling of surprise that the hostess had
not adopted European dress likewise. She was a well-
mannered, elderly woman, speaking only Persian, but her
daughter-in-law was very different, being a girl of about three
or four-and-twenty, clad in a gorgeous pink brocade, loaded
with lace, and made in an ugly European style, her hair
fastened back with a ribbon, and diamonds in her ears.
She had been educated in Constantinople, spoke French
fluently, played the piano passably, and was, I fear,
miserable in Tehran, telling me frankly that it was all
very well to receive visitors in her own home, but that as
she was never permitted to return their visits, she found
life somewhat dreary. The eunuch brought in a real
English tea-tray, and the daughter-in-law poured out tea,
handing round milk and sugar quite d PAnglaise, and
afterwards we had a stroll in the fine gardens with their
fountains and long avenues. I bade good-bye to this
Europeanised Persian with regret, feeling that her lot was
by no means a happy one, and being reminded of the
caged starling in the Bastille that all day long kept crying,
" Let me out! let me out! "
* *****
One day we made an expedition to the bazaars, passing
on our way through the Tupkhana Meidan (Artillery
Square), grandiose and crude like the twelve gateways,
which are indeed the most characteristic features of Tehran,
a city singularly deficient in mosques and their attendant
minarets. This is owing to the fact that it is practically a

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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)
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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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