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In 1884 an obscure British soldier, having finished his tour of duty in India, decided to make a detour on his trip home in order to spend three months crossing Persia unaccompanied except for the local muleteers. Among his accoutrements he packed a small leather-bound sketchbook in which he not only wrote a journal but in which he also added accomplished and charming water-colour illustrations. The authors’ introduction contextualises this trip made in 1884 against the background of Persianate influence in British culture, and the general cultural background of late Victorian Britain is presented as the subliminal driver behind a young man’s desire to explore, and illustrate, an already discovered country – Persia.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half Title, Series Info, Title Page, Copyright, Epigraph
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Table of Figures
  2. pp. xi-xvi
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  1. John Compton Pyne (1857-1893), 2nd Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment
  2. Jeremy Archer
  3. pp. xvii-xx
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  1. Acknowledgements
  2. pp. xxi-xxii
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  1. Introduction,
  2. Russell Harris, Marjan Afsharian
  3. pp. xxiii-liii
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  1. The Journal
  2. pp. 1-246
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  1. Epilogue
  2. Jeremy Archer
  3. pp. 247-252
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 253-260
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 261-266
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