'Through Persia on a side-saddle' [55] (86/360)
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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TO THE GOAL OF OUR JOURNEY VIA YEZD 55
Shiraz and Yezd rose dazzlingly white against the intense
blue of a Persian sky, while nearer lay low hills seemingly
scattered at haphazard about the plain and looking very
insignificant from our elevated perch.
On our way to Serv we crossed a plain where herds of
camels from Isfahan were feeding on the spring scrub.
The young ones were queer, woolly creatures, with enor
mously long legs; and some of them followed us, so
terrifying the horses with their uncanny appearance that
when we halted for lunch and the friendly little monsters
gambolled around us, there was a general tearing up of
picket-ropes, and only prompt measures averted a regular
stampede. As this part of the country is often visited by
parties of raiding Baktiari, we rode well armed, and were
amused at finding that the men in charge of the camels
took us for these bandits, being greatly startled and
snatching up their guns when some of us galloped towards
them to inquire the way. I should not have imagined, as
evidently they did, that Terai hats and European costumes
were affected by Baktiaris!
For the last ten days high winds had invariably com
menced after sunset; but at Nodoshan a regular hurricane
raged during the night, and it says much for our tents and
their stout pegs, that we were not suffocated as we lay,
trying in vain to get a little sleep. The poor servants
scarcely rested at all, and spent their time in piling barri
cades of boxes round the tents, and in hammering in
the pegs as they were torn up. The hours went by very
slowly, the jackals howling round us in small packs, their
yells at a little distance sounding exactly as if children
were crying ; then the owls gave their melancholy hoot
ing, and the musical entertainment was varied by the
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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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- 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
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- Sykes, Ella Constance
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