CRAWSHAY-WILLIAMS (Eliot)
Across Persia.
1st Ed., xii+348pp., frontis., 24 photos., fldg. map, several sketch maps in text. Edward Arnold.
1907
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The Eton & Oxford educated soldier-politician author (who was employed by Churchill at the Colonial Office 1906-08), resigned his commission in the RFA in India in 1903 & travelled across Persia, from Bushire onwards to Shiraz, Tehran &c., the Caspian & Russia & leaves a detailed account of the places he visited & the peoples he encountered. Orig. green cloth, gilt, small dent/puncture to sp. o/w VG. See illustration on our website.
£120
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