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Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, by James Morier
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Title: The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
Author: James Morier
Release Date: May 5, 2007 [EBook #21331]
Language: English
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THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA OF ISPAHAN
BY
JAMES MORIER
ILLUSTRATED BY H.R. MILLAR
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE HON. GEORGE CURZON, M.P.
MACMILLAN AND CO. LONDON AND NEW YORK
1895
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INTRODUCTION
In the first decade of the present century Persia was for a short time the pivot of the Oriental interest of English and Indian statesmen. But little known and scarcely visited during the preceding century, it suddenly and simultaneously focussed the ambitions of Russia, the apprehensions of Great Britain, the Asiatic schemes of France. The envoys of great Powers flocked to its court, and vied with each other in the magnificence of the display and the prodigality of the gifts with which they sought to attract the superb graces of its sovereign, Fath Ali Shah. Among these supplicants for the Persian alliance, then appraised at much beyond its real value, the most assiduous and als