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Book/Printed MaterialThe judgment of the sword; the tale of the Kabul tragedy, and of the part played therein by Major Eldred Pottinger, the hero of Herat, Maud Diver (1867-1945) was a British Indian author who was a friend and contemporary of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) and who, like Kipling, primarily wrote about Englishmen in India and their encounters with the people and cultures of the East. The Judgment of the Sword is one of two books Diver wrote about Eldred Pottinger (1811-43), an army officer in the East India Company. The...
- Contributor: Diver, Maud
- Date: 1913-01-01
- Resource: - 723 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialChosön, the land of the morning calm ; a sketch of Korea, Percival Lowell was born in 1855 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, into a distinguished New England family. His brother, Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943), was president of Harvard University; his sister, Amy Lowell (1874-1925), an important poet and critic. Lowell studied mathematics at Harvard and, after graduation, spent six years in business, managing a family-owned cotton mill. In the spring of 1883, he made his first trip...
- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
- Date: 1885-01-01
- Resource: - 451 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialZanzibar: city, island, and coast. Includes bibliographical references.
- Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis
- Date: 1872-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialA history of Ottoman poetry, Vol. 1 reprinted, 1958.
- Contributor: Browne, Edward Granville - Gibb, Elias John Wilkinson
- Date: 1900-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialTravels in Arabia, Travels in Arabia provides an overview, intended for a general audience, of the most important European travelers to Arabia in the 18th and 19th centuries. The book was compiled and written by Bayard Taylor (1825-78), an American poet, translator, and travel writer, and first published in 1872. Shown here is a slightly revised and updated edition, published in 1892. Following brief introductory chapters about...
- Contributor: Taylor, Bayard - Stevens, Thomas
- Date: 1892
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Book/Printed MaterialPersonal narrative of a year's journey through central and eastern Arabia (1862-63) William Gifford Palgrave (1826-88) was a famous English traveler to Arabia who inspired a generation of European explorers and missionaries. He became fluent in Arabic while serving as a Jesuit missionary in Syria. In 1862 he undertook a year-long journey through the Arabian Peninsula with the stated aim of studying the "moral, political, and intellectual conditions of living Arabia." He was also working as...
- Contributor: Palgrave, William Gifford
- Date: 1871
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Book/Printed MaterialModern geography. A description of the empires, kingdoms, states, and colonies; with the oceans, seas, and isles; in all parts of the world: including the most recent discoveries, and political alterations: Digested ... "Catalogue of maps, and of books of voyages and travels": v. 2, p. 792-802. Vols. 1 and 2 have supplements containing corrections and additions 1817.
- Contributor: Pond, John - Pinkerton, John - Nicolle De La Croix
- Date: 1811-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialA history of Persia, "List of authorities": v. 2, p. 541-547. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2013-8-27
- Contributor: Sykes, Percy - Sykes, Percy Molesworth
- Date: 1921-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialA general collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world; many of which are now first translated into English. Digested on a new plan ... "Catalogue of books of voyages and travels": v. 17, p. [1]-255. Vol. 13 is also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC ael 2020-10-22 update (2 cards)
- Contributor: Pinkerton, John - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1808-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialKings of Arabia; the rise and set of the Turkish sovranty in the Arabian peninsula, Bibliography: p. 19.
- Contributor: Jacob, Harold F. (Harold Fenton)
- Date: 1923-01-01
- Resource: - 344 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialPersia and the Persian question, George Nathaniel Curzon (1859-1925) was a British politician, traveler, and writer who served as viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905 and foreign secretary from 1919 to 1924. As a young man he traveled extensively and wrote several books that drew on his travels, including Russia in Central Asia (1889), Persia and the Persian Question (1892), and Problems of the Far East (1894). Persia...
- Contributor: Curzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel Curzon
- Date: 1892-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialHistory of Afganistan, from the earliest period to the outbreak of the war of 1878. History of Afghanistan from the Earliest Period to the Outbreak of the War of 1878 is a political and military history of Afghanistan that was published in London in 1879, shortly after the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80). The author, George Bruce Malleson, was a British army officer and military historian who had served in India and who wrote prolifically on the...
- Contributor: Malleson, G. B. (George Bruce)
- Date: 1879-01-01
- Resource: - 490 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Hedàya or Guide; a commentary of the Mussulman laws. Includes index. Translated from Arabic.
- Contributor: Marghīnānī, ʻalī Ibn Abī Bakr - Hamilton, Charles
- Date: 1791-01-01