Blind White Fish in Persia

Blind Whttt Fish in Persia

One knows and

these

modern

travelers, these

pseudo-scientific bores despatched

extinguished

officials to

cold. Unlimited

see

if

overgrown prefects

by congregations of

sand dunes sing

money, every kind of

official

md snow is

influence support

them; they penetrate the furthest recesses of the globs; and

beyond ascertaining that sand dunes do sing and snow what do they observe to enlarge the human mind?

is

cold,

Nothing.

page 239

THE ROAD TO oxiANA by Robert Byron John Lehmann Ltd 1950

Blind White Fish in

PERSIA ANTHONY SMITH EPDUTTON&COINC

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Neiv York E. P.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This journey to Persia could not have taken place without the of of which allowed Oxford, approval University

the

the

pleasant duty to

also that

organizations

edged

For

in the

their

acknowledge

provided by

whose

University

and

in this

who

is

more

scientific

book

this

help gratefully, the scientific and geographical

assistance

published

part

and Eric Gordon Leask

the

money.

It is a

and

name of

Expedition to use the it a grant of

made

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work of

the

am

indebted to

all

the

acknowl-

expedition.

Philip

Beckett

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who made

Lehmann

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CONTENTS A FOREWORD CHAPTER

i

page 14

Preparations at

CHAPTER

Genoa

ii

Oxford

page 27

to Persia

CHAPTER HI page 46

Kirman

Persia to

CHAPTER

iv

The Week

page 62

in

Kirman

CHAPTER v page 75

The

First

Week

in Jupar

CHAPTER

vi page 94 Jupar (2)

CHAPTER

vii page 123 Jupar (3)

CHAPTER

viii

page 149

Mahun CHAPTER

ix

page 185

Negar CHAPTER x page 208 Kirman to Persian Frontier CHAPTER

xi

page 232

Persian Frontier to

Oxford

5351012

ILLUSTRATIONS 1

the road to Isfahan

-facing

page

32

3

4

Passports

33

5

The wire

64 64

32

Kirman

6

netting in use near Jupar Replacing the broken back spring

7 8

Looking over the lower part of Jupar The wheel erected above a shaft

9

A A

10 11

12 13

14 15 16 17 1

Road menders and

Outside a teahouse in Yezd The ruins of the old fort at

2

8

collapsed part of Gauhariz typical small village on the edge of the plain House building with the bricks of dried mud

A A A

settlement at the foot of the miller

and

his

hills

of Jupar

Collecting insects small mountain village near Torgekhan The shape of the land north of the Kuh-i-Jupar

A

19-22 Sortie of the'Gauhariz channels 23-24 Above the ground and 100 ft. below 25

26 27 28

The making Winnowing

of a carpet

Philip digging one of his holes at Sagutch

30 31

Sheep and goats coming down

32

The

33

A

tenants of Baharistan

the

way home

105

121 121

121

128

129 160 161

168

168 to drink*

grandmother, mother and child in Jupar

On

105

i