In the Land of the Lion and Sun: Being Experiences of Life in Persia from 1866 to 1881 (Persia observed)
Publisher: Mage Publishers | ISBN: 0934211604 | edition 2004 | PDF | 496 pages | 23,33 mb
C J Wills was an English physician who travelled widely in Iran from 1866-81 while working for the Indo-European Telegraph Department. With a discerning eye for detail, Wills wrote an intimate anthropological account of Qajar-era Iran, rich with description of everyday life, popular beliefs and practices, and arts and crafts, as well as health practices and communications that were his professional concern.