RARE 1896 TRAVELS BATUM THE CAUCASUS PERSIA TABRIZ PERSIAN KURDSTAN SHEKAK KURDS
Item History & Price
BATUM TO BAGHDADVia Tiflis, Tabriz, and Persian Kurdistan
by
Walter. B. Harris
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1896
Book Details
1st. Edition. xii, 335pp with 16 full page black and white illustrations, 18 black and white illustrations in the text, one full page map and a coloured folding map at the rear.
Size of Book 21cm x 15.5cm/8.25in x 6in
Book Description
Very good publisher�...�s original dark green cloth covers with titles in gilt on the spine and black on the front cover. Small amount of wear at the foot of the spine.
Some light browning/toning to the front and rear endpapers. Some light browning/toning to the edges of the pages but otherwise the text is in very good condition with no foxing, marks or other blemishes.
About this Book
“Batum to Baghdad” is Walter Harris’ account of a journey he made in 1895 from Tiflis (Tiblisi) the capital of Georgia across Transcaucasia to Julfa (in modern Azerbaijan) to Tabriz in north-western Persia where he spent time travelling in Persian Kurdistan home of the Shekak Kurds.
From western Persia he travelled to Kenmanshah on the Persian Gulf coast from where he travelled through southern Mesopotamia (then under Ottoman rule) to Baghdad.
Chapters include:TANGIER TO TIFLIS TIFLIS A DRIVE ACROSS TRANSCAUCASIA JULFA TO TABRIZ TABRIZ TABRIZ TO MARAGHA MARAGHA TO MIYANDOB MIYANDOB TO SUJ-BULAK PERSIAN KURDISTAN AND ITS INHABITANTS TRAVELS IN PERSIAN KURDISTAN BANA TO KERMANSHAH KERMANSHAH TO BAGHDAD BAGHDAD IN 1895 THE VOYAGE HOME "Batum to Baghdad" includes several chapters on Persian Kurdistan.
About the Author:
Walter Burton Harris (1866 - 1933) was a British journalist, writer, traveller and socialite who achieved fame for his writings on Morocco, where he worked for many years as special correspondent for The Times. He settled in the country at the age of nineteen, eventually building himself a fine villa in Tangier where he lived for much of his life.
His linguistic skills and physical appearance enabled him to pose successfully as a native Moroccan, travelling to parts of the country regarded as off-limits to foreigners. He wrote a number of well-regarded books and articles on his travels in Morocco and other countries in the Near and Far East. Harris also played a significant, though not always constructive, role in the European diplomatic intrigues that affected Morocco around the turn of the C20th.
