THE TRAIL OF TAMERLANE
by John Ure
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, pocket, barcode etc. Slight lean to
- ISBN 10
- 0094633509
- ISBN 13
- 9780094633506
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About This Item
Constable & Co, London - first UK edition ISBN:0094633509 1980 Hardcover, 8¾" x 5½", with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, pocket, barcode etc. Slight lean to spine.VERY GOOD book in GOOD price-clipped dust jacket Fawn cloth-bound boards with gold type to spine, tinted top edge, illustrated endpapers, full-colour photographic frontispiece (Elburz mountains), one double-page map, 19 b&w photos, chronolgical list of Persian Dynasties, epilogue, bibliography, and index. This book traces the most crucial of Tamerlane's campaigns (1386 - 1388) across Persia, the Caucasus and Asia Minor, over mountain passes and across barren plains. The author recounts both the exploits of Tamerlane - the subjugation of the Kingdom of Georgia, the storming of the lakeside Castle of Van, the sack of Isfahan - and his own adventures among these nomad peoples.
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- Seller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 31907
- Title
- THE TRAIL OF TAMERLANE
- Author
- John Ure
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 8¾" x 5½", with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, pocket, barcode etc. Slight lean to
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0094633509
- ISBN 13
- 9780094633506
- Publisher
- Constable & Co, London - first UK edition ISBN:0094633509
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1980
- Pages
- 208 pages
- Keywords
- Persia Tamerlane Georgia Isfahan Qashqai Persepolis Asia Travel Middle East Travel True Adventure Iran Turkey
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