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  • Ten Thousand Miles In Persia
    Percy Molesworth Sykes
    A luminous record of journeys across a changing land. A rare window into Persia. Percy Molesworth Sykes’s Ten Thousand Miles in Persia: Or, Eight Years in Iran is a Persian travel memoir that blends observational reporting with reflective travel writing; its voice belongs to the tradition of Victorian-era exploration while addressing the realities of early twentieth-century Ira...
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    63,16 €

  • A History Of Persia (Volume 1)
    Sir Percy Sykes
    This is a facsimile of a classic history first published by Macmillan in 1915 and issued in two further editions by Routledge and Kegan Paul. Sir Percy Sykes was an explorer, consul, soldier and a spy who lived and travelled in Persia over a period of twenty-five years. This two-volume collection provides a comprehensive history of Persia from Alexander the Great, through Briti...
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    55,13 €

  • Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia
    Ella Sykes / Percy Sykes
    ''Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia'' is a travelogue written by Ella Sykes, a British traveler who explored the remote and largely uncharted regions of Central Asia in the early 20th century. The book recounts her adventures and experiences during her travels through the deserts and oases of Central Asia, including her encounters with the nomadic tribes, her observatio...
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    37,72 €

  • Ten Thousand Miles In Persia Or Eight Years In Iran
    Percy Molesworth Sykes
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    52,67 €

  • A History of Persia
    Percy Molesworth Sykes
    Sykes was educated at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and, upon his commission as an officer in the British Army, joined a cavalry regiment in India in 1888. In November 1892, he undertook a secret mission to Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan) to survey, on behalf of the British authorities, the Trans-Caspian Railway, recently completed by the Russians. He made trips to...
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    42,28 €