Persia and the Victorians (RLE Iran A)

Multivolume collection by leading authors in the field

• Contents: 1. “Have you Seen the Shah?” 2. The Nearing East  3. Sir William and Bocara’s Gold  4. Orientalism in Rags  5. Hippopotamus Murray  6.  Julius de Reuter: Afternoon of a Faun  7. The Glory of God  8. The Writing Diplomats  9. “What For You Write Hajjî Baba...?”  10. Crown of the Moon  11. The Murder of Edward Palmer  12. Browne and the Eastward Yearning  13. George Borrow: In Thirty-Five Languages, No  14. Matthew Arnold and the Hindoo Koosh  15. Burton, Men’s Hearts to Gladden  16. Shíráz on the Concord  17. The Old Familiar Juice  18. On the Nature of Súfism  19. Omar FitzGerald  20. Mr Thiselton Dyer of the Royal Gardens