Travels in Persia, 1673-1677
โ Sir John Chardin
๐ Library
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2012
๐ INscribe Digital;Dover Publications
๐ English
<p>First inexpensive edition of great travel classic offers detailed, sharply observed portrait of 17th-century Persia. Vivid record of life at court of Shah: lavish banquets and entertainments, diplomatic negotiations, intrigues and cruelty, more. Also, soil and climate, flora and fauna, manners an