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Coveted Lands, by Arnold Henry Savage Landor
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Title: Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland
Author: Arnold Henry Savage Landor
Release Date: July 22, 2007 [EBook #22117]
Language: English
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[Illustration: His Majesty the Shah of Persia.]
ACROSS COVETED LANDS
OR
A JOURNEY FROM FLUSHING (HOLLAND) TO CALCUTTA, OVERLAND
BY
A. HENRY SAVAGE LANDOR
WITH 175 ILLUSTRATIONS, DIAGRAMS, PLANS AND MAPS BY AUTHOR
IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I
London MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited 1902
All rights reserved
Richard Clay and Sons, Limited, LONDON AND BUNGAY
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
To face page His Majesty the Shah of Persia Frontispiece The Baku Oil Wells 20 The Amir of Bokhara leaving Baku to return to his Country 26 Persian Wrestling 38 Fourgons on the Russian Road between Resht and Teheran 50 Making a Kanat 74 The Murderer of Nasr-ed-din Shah 90 Persian Cossacks (Teheran) Drilled by Russian Officers 100 The Eftetahié College, supported by Meftah-el-Mul