The siege of Isfahan
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Author
Contributions
- Wood, Willard. - Contributor
Publication
2001 - W.W. Norton, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
93,250 words, Guess
Page Count
373 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivesiegeofisfahan00rufi
- ISBN-100393049884
- ISBN-139780393049886
- Goodreads218319
- LibraryThing376022
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- Library of Congress Control Number00048953
- Open LibraryOL23272837M
Classifications
- DDC843/.914
- LCCPQ2678.U357 S2813 2001
Description
"It is twenty years since Jean-Baptiste Poncet, through his apothecary skills and daring diplomacy, cured the ailing Negus of Abyssinia and saved that country from the political ambitions of the Sun King, Louis XIV of France.". "Poncet now finds himself in Isfahan, the capital of Persia, practicing medicine in the court of the Shah. In order to rescue his old friend Juremi, imprisoned in the Urals, Poncet travels in disguise to Russia, where he engages in a diplomatic duel of wits with Peter the Great. The friends, reunited, are captured by nomads and sold as slaves in Afghanistan. This is the beginning of Poncet's circuitous return to Isfahan, where his wife and daughter are trapped inside the walls by a besieging army of the Afghan king, Mahmud."--BOOK JACKET.
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