Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map (1906)
Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 111
s the tableland is high at this point. Themountain scenery looked like a sea of gigantic billows raisedby some Titan storm that had torn up its surface. And snowwas everywhere. The depth of the snow made progress veryslow, and once our vehicle became hopelessly stuck in a hugedrift, and I had to… … MARAND AND SOFIAN, HISTORIC PLACES 37 hamlets were buried in the snow, one or two on the mountain-side (like the one in my picture) looking as if their occupantshad hibernated all winter, so completely was their communica-tion cut off. Most desolate among all the sights, however,was a ruined…
Zoroastrianism
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