From Batum to Baghdad: Viâ Tiflis, Tabriz, and Persian KurdistanW. Blackwood and sons, 1896 - 335 páginas |
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... never left their native hills , situated who knows where . There was more that was pitiful than ludi- crous in the tears of these great stalwart men , who were going to seek their fortune in strange lands . One could only hope for their ...
... never left their native hills , situated who knows where . There was more that was pitiful than ludi- crous in the tears of these great stalwart men , who were going to seek their fortune in strange lands . One could only hope for their ...
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... never - failing interest to wander about amongst this veritable menagerie of peoples , to listen to their strange languages , and drink a cup of tea , or take a few whiffs from the amber mouthpieces of their long - tubed pipes . The ...
... never - failing interest to wander about amongst this veritable menagerie of peoples , to listen to their strange languages , and drink a cup of tea , or take a few whiffs from the amber mouthpieces of their long - tubed pipes . The ...
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... never in his life seen a train before , thought the whole station - and the station at Batum is by no means a small one - was going to Tiflis , and accordingly arranged the luggage on one of the seats and made himself comfortable for a ...
... never in his life seen a train before , thought the whole station - and the station at Batum is by no means a small one - was going to Tiflis , and accordingly arranged the luggage on one of the seats and made himself comfortable for a ...
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... never in his life seen a train before , thought the whole station - and the station at Batum is by no means a small one - was going to Tiflis , and accordingly arranged the luggage on one of the seats and made himself comfortable for a ...
... never in his life seen a train before , thought the whole station - and the station at Batum is by no means a small one - was going to Tiflis , and accordingly arranged the luggage on one of the seats and made himself comfortable for a ...
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... never to gain their full proportions . It is amongst hills thus wooded that the merchants of Batum have cleared tracts of land and planted themselves gardens of trees from the tropics and the snow - clad Caucasus- long avenues of pines ...
... never to gain their full proportions . It is amongst hills thus wooded that the merchants of Batum have cleared tracts of land and planted themselves gardens of trees from the tropics and the snow - clad Caucasus- long avenues of pines ...
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From Batum to Baghdad: Viâ Tiflis, Tabriz, and Persian Kurdistan Walter Harris Visualização integral - 1896 |
From Batum to Baghdad: Viâ Tiflis, Tabriz, and Persian Kurdistan Walter Harris Visualização integral - 1896 |
From Batum to Baghdad: Viâ Tiflis, Tabriz, and Persian Kurdistan Walter Harris Visualização integral - 1896 |
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