Modern Persia and Its Capital and an Account of an Ascent of Mount Devavend, the Persian Olympus by F.L. Bird - 1921

Wash DC: National Geographic Society, 1921. Book. Good. Soft cover. Entire issue of National Geographic Magazine, Vol XXXIX, No 4 (April 1921), pp353-416, 47 photo illustrations. The issue is entirely devoted to Persia. The only other article, Persian Caravan Sketches: The Land of the Lion and the Sun as Seen on a Summer Caravan Trip, is by Harold F. Weston on pp417-468, and includes a map and 63 illustrations of which 16 are in color (some colored by the author). Tall 8vo/25.5cm. F.L. Bird had been an instructor at an American college in Teheran for five years. Harold F. Weston had been employed by the YMCA in Mesopotamia since 1916. Both articles present views of a Persia (called Iran since the 1930s) very different from the present..