Persia Past and Present: A Book of Travel and Research, with More Than Two Hundred Illustrations and a MapMacmillan, 1906 - 471 Seiten |
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... I continued the journey into the heart of Asia , to Merv , Bokhara , and Samarkand . to the Caspian - more than distance had first to B 1 EN ROUTE FOR THE LAND OF THE LION AND THE GENERAL INDEX INDEX OF PASSAGES MAP OF PERSIA.
... I continued the journey into the heart of Asia , to Merv , Bokhara , and Samarkand . to the Caspian - more than distance had first to B 1 EN ROUTE FOR THE LAND OF THE LION AND THE GENERAL INDEX INDEX OF PASSAGES MAP OF PERSIA.
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... distance had first to be covered The first four thousand miles of It is a far cry from New- seven thousand miles - but before the real journey bega . the trip by steamer and rail were uneventful . At Berlin I stayed a few days to see my ...
... distance had first to be covered The first four thousand miles of It is a far cry from New- seven thousand miles - but before the real journey bega . the trip by steamer and rail were uneventful . At Berlin I stayed a few days to see my ...
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... distance I could picture the desolate vulture - peak where the demigod lay chained in fetters because he had stolen fire from heaven as a boon for men . Well might the suffering benefactor of mankind have longed for the sun to rise and ...
... distance I could picture the desolate vulture - peak where the demigod lay chained in fetters because he had stolen fire from heaven as a boon for men . Well might the suffering benefactor of mankind have longed for the sun to rise and ...
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... distance , but ever close at hand , loomed snow - clad Ararat ; beneath the palace walls and the buttresses of the fort swept the river Zangi , held in check only by its precipitous banks ; a caravan wended its way slowly across the ...
... distance , but ever close at hand , loomed snow - clad Ararat ; beneath the palace walls and the buttresses of the fort swept the river Zangi , held in check only by its precipitous banks ; a caravan wended its way slowly across the ...
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... distance covered , despite all my efforts , was only forty - five miles . As a place , Marand is no longer of any consequence , although it was once an important town . Yakut says that even in his time , seven centuries ago , it was ...
... distance covered , despite all my efforts , was only forty - five miles . As a place , Marand is no longer of any consequence , although it was once an important town . Yakut says that even in his time , seven centuries ago , it was ...
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