Persia and the Victorians (RLE Iran A)

Contents: 1. "Have you Seen the Shah?" 2. The Nearing East 3. Sir William and Bocara's Gold 4. Orientalism in Rags 5. Hippopotamus Murray 6. Julius de Reuter: Afternoon of a Faun 7. The Glory of God 8. The Writing Diplomats 9. "What For You Write Hajji Baba...?" 10. Crown of the Moon 11. The Murder of Edward Palmer 12. Browne and the Eastward Yearning 13. George Borrow: In Thirty-Five Languages, No 14. Matthew Arnold and the Hindoo Koosh 15. Burton, Men's Hearts to Gladden 16. Shiraz on the Concord 17. The Old Familiar Juice 18. On the Nature of Sufism 19. Omar FitzGerald 20. Mr Thiselton Dyer of the Royal Gardens