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  • Travels in the Footsteps of Bruce in Algeria and Tunis

    by Robert Lambert Playfair ...
    Many years of my life have been passed in and about the countries which he first opened out to geographical knowledge. When, therefore, I found myself at Algiers as Bruce’s successor in office, after the lapse of a century, my interest in him was redoubled. I read the unsatisfactory account of his Barbary explorations, prefixed to the first volume of his travels, with the greatest regret that it ... Read more

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  • Persian Empire

    Illustrated Edition: Conquests in Mesopotamia and Egypt, Wars Against Ancient Greece, The Great Emperors: Cyrus the Great, Darius I and Xerxes I

    by George Rawlinson ...
    The First Persian Empire was a country of the Achaemenid dynasty, based in Western Asia, founded by Cyrus the Great. Ranging at its greatest extent from the Balkans and Eastern Europe proper in the west to the Indus Valley in the east, it was larger than any previous empire in history. This book describes conquests of the greatest Persian emperors, Cyrus the Great, Darius I and Xerxes I and the ... Read more

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  • Saladin and the Fall of Jerusalem

    by Stanley Lane-Poole ...
    SALADIN is one of the few Oriental Personages who need no introduction to English readers. Sir Walter Scott has performed that friendly office with the warmth and insight of appreciative genius. It was Saladin's good fortune to attract the notice not only of the great romancer, but also of King Richard, and to this accident he partly owes the result that, instead of remaining a dry historical ... Read more

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  • Darius the Great

    by Jacob Abbott ...
    Series Book 5 - Makers of History Series
    About five or six hundred years before Christ, almost the whole of the interior of Asia was united in one vast empire. The founder of this empire was Cyrus the Great. He was originally a Persian; and the whole empire is often called the Persian monarchy, taking its name from its founder’s native land.Cyrus was not contented with having annexed to his dominion all the civilized states of Asia. In ... Read more

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  • Ethiopia

    through writers' eyes

    by Yves-Marie Stranger ...
    Ethiopia is one of only a handful of countries that shock the traveller with their unique perspective. These places awaken a deep sense of wonder and offer a rare opportunity to observe the world from a different angle, to see things anew. Ethiopia: through writers' eyes is the perfect companion to any exploration of this idiosyncratic country, be it from the precarious saddle of an Abyssinian ... Read more

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  • A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by James Justinian Morier ...
    Excerpt from A Journey Through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809: In Which Is Included, Some Account of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Mission, Under Sir Harford Jones, Bart, K. C., To the Court of the King of Persia. "Amasia, is the result of my own observation, corrected by the same masterly hand. It terminates at Amasia, because my journey from ... Read more

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  • Travels in Morocco (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Complete Edition

    by James Richardson, Elowen Quenmere ...
    James Richardson's Travels in Morocco (Vol. 1&2) is a richly observant nineteenth-century travel narrative, combining itinerary, ethnographic description, political commentary, and commercial inquiry. Written in the measured yet vivid prose of Victorian exploration, it records landscapes, cities, markets, religious customs, diplomatic encounters, and the precarious movements of Europeans in North ... Read more

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  • The Persian Empire

    by George Rawlinson ...
    The history of the Persian Empire dates from the conquest of Astyages by Cyrus, and therefore commences with the year B.C. 558. But the present inquiry must be carried considerably further back, since in this, as in most other cases, the Empire grew up out of a previously existing monarchy. Darius Hystaspis reckons that there had been eight Persians kings of his race previously to himself; and ... Read more

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  • The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema

    by Ludovico di Varthema ...
    Who was Ludovico di Varthema? Unfortunately, scarcely any record of him is forthcoming except what he tells us himself. I have searched every available repository of such information, to learn something of his antecedents, and have searched in vain. Zedler finds no place for him in his Universal Lexicon; our own Biographical Collections pass him over and all that the French have to say is this:— ... Read more

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  • A second journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia minor, to Constantinople, in the years 1810 and 1816

    by Morier, James ...
    James Justinian Morier (1780 - 1849) was an English diplomat and author noted for his novels about Persia. He first visited Persia in 1808-09 with an account of his Eastern experiences published in 1812 under the title A Journey through Persia, Armenia and Asia Minor to Constantinople in 1808. From 1810 to 1816 he was the British representative at the court (Secretary of Legation) of Persia, and ... Read more

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  • My Journey to Egypt

    By the Code-Breaker of the Hieroglyphs

    by Jean-François Champollion ...
    Translated by Martin Rynja ...
    Jean-François Champollion broke the code of the hieroglyphs on 14 September 1822. But this didn't yet mean understanding how old the culture of the pharaohs was, or any of its details. This next milestone Champollion achieved six years later when he embarked on a two-year expedition to Egypt and became the first person to read the hieroglyphs on the monuments that had been built along the Nile for ... Read more

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  • Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor

    by Robert Walsh ...
    Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor is a history of Constantinople and other famous cities in Asia Minor such as Ephesus and Smyrna. Dozens of illustrations are included. ... Read more

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