This fascinating two-volume 1887 publication by the Victorian archaeologist Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-94) describes his adventurous first expedition through the Middle East in 1840-2. Volume 1 focuses on ancient sites and major cities, and Persian tribal peoples. Volume 2 describes armed conflict and Layard's dangerous return journey to Constantinople.
A remarkable travel narrative, published in 1887, describing cities, antiquities and lawless tribal regions of Persia in the 1840s.
