The valleys of the Assassins and other Persian travels | Collections | The Huntington

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The valleys of the Assassins and other Persian travels
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East is West
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Journalist, traveler, and writer Freya Stark wrote this book "as an armchair journey for the average reader" after discovering that contemporary knowledge of the Arab world in Europe and the United States was out of date. She gives an introductory history and political analysis of the region in the introduction, especially with respect to World War II, foreign presence in the region, and the region's future place in the world. This book, based on the author's travels, focuses particularly upon the Arabian Peninsula (specifically Aden in Yemen, where she was stationed by the British government as a diplomat), Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq. Stark does not attempt to keep the narrative falsely impersonal; her status as a foreign woman traveling by herself was wildly uncommon, and the way her informants responded to her reflects that fact.
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Seen in the Hadhramaut
Rare Books
Stark published this collection of her photographs in 1939. She intended the book for the popular reader to admire the sights and people of the historical region Hadhramaut, now in modern Yemen. The book contains black-and-white photographs of good quality, generally full page, with Stark's commentary on the opposite page.
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The Minaret of Djam : an excursion in Afghanistan
Rare Books
The author recalls the people and scenery of her journey from Kabul, through Afghanistan to Herat and Kandahar.
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Letters and other items by others
Manuscripts
The collection contains correspondence and other documents of Joseph Holt. Included are items relating to American Civil War law and politics; Kentucky at the outbreak of the Civil War; military law and the office of judge advocate general; the trial of Lincoln's assassins including Mary Surratt; Holt's personal and family life; the U.S. Patent Office; and U.S. Post Office. Other correspondents include Gustave Beauregard, Horace Greeley, Winfield Scott, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and Edwin Stanton. There is also a copy of a letter by Holt to Abraham Lincoln where he refused the position of attorney general (1864 November 5).
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Untitled Persian manuscript
Manuscripts
Possibly created in India. With eight miniatures of two-headed men, beasts, and beasts with human heads.
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