In her early twenties Gertrude Bell visited her uncle, the British minister in Tehran, and wrote these sketches of Persia. She describes the capital in its ring of mountains, a Zoroastrian tower of silence, Persian gardens, a great merchant, the mourning for Imam Hussein, the nomads’ tents and three noble ladies.
The first book by the archaeologist and Arabist who later helped shape modern Iraq. Download the free EPUB.