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'Through Persia on a side-saddle' [286] (327/360)
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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CHAPTER XX
from busreh to tehran again
I t seemed to me throughout our stay in the East that we
met with more real kindness and more genuine hospitality
than we had experienced during the whole course of our
lives up to that date, and at Busreh there was no exception
to the rule, for it was mainly owing to Captain Whyte's
unceasing care and forethought that my brother's life was
spared. He had been attacked with pleurisy—and in
spite of the comforts of the Consulate, in spite of punkahs
by day and night, iced drinks and appetising food, it
seemed impossible for him to regain his strength in a
climate resembling nothing so much as a Turkish bath,
and in his condition he could not have borne the journey
down the Gulf to the comparative coolness of Karachi.
Of course it was entirely owing to my state of mind,
but all the glamour and beauty of Busreh seemed turned
to a sinistei and hateful loveliness, and the sunshine I had
always loved so well hitherto seemed a baleful, death-
dealing influence. Our days dragged by slowly in a weari
some routine. We slept at night on the roof, under mattincr
shelters to keep off the deadly dew, and with the punkahs
creaking backwards and forwards ; and had to descend
to our suffocatingly hot rooms below at 5.30 a.m. at latest,
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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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- 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