Through Persia on a Side-Saddle by Sykes, Ella Constance - 2001-02-13

Paperback / softback. New.

Legare Street Press, 2022-10-27. paperback. New. 6x0x9.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

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Legare Street Press, 2022-10-27. hardcover. New. 6x0x9.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: A. D. Innes & Company, Ltd,, 1898. Now I had a sense of freedom and expansion which quickened the blood and made the pulse beat high First edition of this scarce travel account. Sykes was "the first European woman to visit" the interior of Persia when she spent two years in the area with her brother Percy Molesworth Sykes from 1895 (ODNB). The Times considered her book a "very readable narrative" delivered in a "fresh and lively manner". Though well-represented institutionally, it is uncommon in commerce. Ella Constance Sykes (1863-1939) was among the earliest students at Lady Margaret Hall, the Church of England foundation for women students at Oxford, and later a member of the Central Asian Society and Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society. She had never been beyond Europe when her brother asked her to accompany him to Kerman and Baluchistan, where he was being sent to establish consulates. They travelled along the Persian Gulf, visiting all the major coastal settlements on the way, and… Read More