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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 915.5 EAN: 9780486256368 ISBN: 0486256367 Label: Dover Publications Manufacturer: Dover Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 287 Publication Date: April 01, 1988 Publisher: Dover Publications Studio: Dover Publications Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 and customs, trade and manufacture, many other aspects. 9 illustrations. Average Rating:
 Rating: - confusing...I purchased this book in hopes of not being able to put it down,not so. It is truly written for it's time. Endless words of appreciations of the king, master, and so on. A well traveled man indeed, but where was Persia in all of these pages? Chardin, writes some interesting anecdotes about the Iranian society in the 1600's, that are quit interesting, like the Romanian dancing boys and coffee shops, along with the generosities of the king. It's worth looking over simply for these point. 
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