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Persian Pictures - From the Mountains to the Sea (Paperback)
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Persian Pictures - From the Mountains to the Sea (Paperback)
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Loot Price R418
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'Are we the same, I wonder, when all our surroundings, association,
acquaintances are changed? I conclude that it is not the person who
danced with you at Mansfield St who writes to you today from
Persia. Yet there are dregs, English sediment at the bottom of my
sherbet, and perhaps they flavour it more than I think. I write to
you of Persia: I am not me, that is my only excuse. I am merely
pouring out for you some of what I have received in the last two
months.' When Gertrude Bell's uncle was appointed Minister in
Tehran in 1891, she declared that the great ambition of her life
was to visit Persia. Several months later, she did. And so began a
lifetime of travel and a lifelong enchantment with what she saw as
the romance of the East, which evolved into a deep understanding of
its cultures and people. This vivid and impressionistic series of
sketches, her first foray into writing, is an evocative meditation
that moves between Persia's heroic past and its long decline; the
public face of Tehran and the otherworldly 'secret, mysterious life
of the East', the lives of its women, its lush, enclosed gardens;
from the bustling cities to the lonely wastelands of Khorasan.
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