Articles with the theme: Iran (Persia)

“‘Then and there’ – Theodore and Mabel Bent in Persia, 1889” (forthcoming 2026)

سفری در ایران با تئودور و میبل بنت

While travel for some in ‘Persia’ is still clearly so precarious, why not ride instead, south-north through Iran, with the Bents – on mules, ponies, camels, oxen, and in assorted carts and carriages?

Announcing: “‘Then and there’ – Theodore and Mabel Bent in Persia, 1889″ (forthcoming 2026)

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Mabel’s pond at Manzaria/Manzarieh, 30 km north of Qom, Iran (Google Maps).

Mabel writes in her Chronicle: Tuesday, 9 April 1889, Manzaria/ Manzarieh, 30 km north of Qom [34.89018460145364, 50.82060309976168]: “After this, let me say that we had a very pleasant afternoon of peace and contemplation of a round pond with a stone coping on which numerous travellers sat on their heels for hours and hours like so many big frogs just got out of the water…”