Oriental Memories of a German diplomatist / by Friedrich Rosen. London : Methuen, [1930]
Inhalt
- PDF Vorderdeckel
- PDF Abschnitt
- PDF Abb.: The Author in 1905
- PDF Titelblatt
- PDF Preface
- PDF Contents
- PDF List of illustrations
- PDF Oriental memories
- PDF Part I. Jerusalem
- PDF Chapter I. Early recollections of camping and town life - Old Saracen house - The rich man's home and its inmates - Other neighbours and friends - Turks, Arabs, Jews and Christioans - The Prince of Wales' visit to Palestine - Jerusalem and its surroundings before modernization
- PDF 32 Charter II. Great changes in Europe - Departure from Jerusalem - Jaffa - Egypt - The Levant in the days of Napoleon III - Austria after her war with Prussia
- PDF Part II. Across Persia on horseback
- PDF Chapter I. Departure from India - Maskat - The Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf - Fish-eaters, pirates, pearl-fischers - Bushire
- PDF Chapter II. Overland trip to Teheran - Ascending the passes - Shiraz - Visit to the Tombs of Saadi and Hafiz - Persepolis - Tombs of Darius and Cyrus
- PDF Chapter III. Isfahan - Visit to the Shah's eldest son - The beautiful Dancing-Girls of Kashan - The Valley of the Angel of Death - Arrival at Teheran
- PDF Chapter IV. Sir Arthur and Lady Nicolson's hospitality - Baron Schenck, the German minister, and other members of the diplomatic corps - General Schindler - Audience with the Shah
- PDF Part III. Syria
- PDF Chapter I. Bismarck's dismissal - Witnessing his departure from Berlin - Count Caprivi, his succesor - Cairo - Beyrout - Visit to Damascus
- PDF Chapter II. Visit from the King of the Samaritans - Receiving a delegation from the Maronites - Corrupt administration - French aspirations - Turkish procrastination - Conflict and friendship with the public prosecutor
- PDF Chapter III. Excursion tho the Cedars of Lebanon and to the scene of the Legend of Venus and Adonis - Returning on an English cargo boat from Tripolis to Beyrout
- PDF Chapter IV
- PDF Part IV. Persia again
- PDF Chapter I. Towards Persia - Difficulties in the Russian custom house - On horseback to Kazvīn
- PDF Chapter II. Arrival at Teheran - Changes in the British legation - Sir Henry Drummond Wolff - Sir Frank Lascelles - Studies, shooting and trout-fishing - Persian friends and entertainments - Visiting a forbidden sanctuary in disguise - Condition of Persian ladies
- PDF Chapter III. Life in Teheran - The shah - His ancestors - Severity of punishments - His diaries - Nāsiraddīn shah's violent death - Anglo-Russian rivalry - Sir Mortimer Durand - The grand vizier Amīn-as Sultān - His life saved - His ultimate violent death
- PDF Chapter IV. Friends in Persia - Miss Getrude Bell - Junior members of the staff of the British legation
- PDF Chapter V. Oriental studies - History of the last two centuries - Sir E. Denison Ross - A modern Persian colloquial grammar - German and English translations of Omar Khyyām
- PDF Chapter VI. Official side of my life in Persia - A severe epidemic of cholera - Information given me by the British legation - Fate of a dispatch - The Emperor's telegram to Kruger - Cecil Rhodes and the kaiser
- PDF Part V. Bagdad
- PDF Chapter I. On a special mission to Baghdad - Egypt, Palestine and Syria revisited - Organizing a caravan - Ride from Damascus acros the Syrian Desert to the Euphrates
- PDF Chapter II. Primitive navigation - Attack by a nomad tribe - Narrow escape - Picturesque scenery
- PDF Chapter III. Arrival at Baghdad - Life and occupations - The Baghdad railway question
- PDF Chapter IV. Expedition to Pusht-I Kūh - Desert hospitality - Mandalī - The Mudir and his stories - The Persian agent an his brigant friends - Aristotle's opinion on the question wheter bears lay eggs - An adventurous night ride
- PDF Chapter V. Expedition to Pusht-I Kūh (continued) - Grand scenery - Town of tents - The old man of the mountain - Lavish hospitality
- PDF Chapter VI. Discovery of summer residence of the Caliphs of Baghdad - Snakes - The asphalt castle - Visiting the town of tents - Nomad chief as "officier de l'instruciton publique"
- PDF Chapter VII. Returning to Baghdad - Robbery - Intelligence of thoroughbred Arab horses
- PDF Chapter VIII. Camping near the ruins of Ctesiphon - Studying the history of Baghdad - Story abaut Farthalī, Shah of Persia - Writing the book on Jews and Phoenicians
- PDF Chapter IX. Ordered back to Teheran - Excursion to Hillah and Kerbelā - Riding over the ruins of Babylon - Fahad, the great Bedouin chief - Kerbelā, the great Shiah sanctuary
- PDF Part VI. Back once more to Persia. Preparations - Farewell to Arabia and to Bedouin life - The royal road - Scenery and historic remains - Romance of brigandage - Teheran
- PDF Part VII. Jerusalem again: 1899 - 1900
- PDF Chapter I. Appointment to Jerusalem - A later conversation with the emperor about this matter - Farewell to Persia
- PDF Chapter II. German policy in the holy land - First meeting with the emperor
- PDF Chapter III. Arrival in Jerusalem - Great changes - My colleague
- PDF Chapter IV. Arrival of my family - Gertrude Bell our guest - Her succesful studies in Arabic - Her interest in ancient history of Palestine - Explorations and excursions
- PDF Chapter V. Called to Berlin - Looking backward on the years spent in the East - Political outlook
- PDF Index
- PDF Methuen's General Literature [Verlagswerbung]
- PDF Rückdeckel