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This Elizabethan description of nomadic Persians (from Hakluyt's Principal Voyages) would have been accurate in the time of Herodotus (circa 484-425 B.C.) and was still accurate in A.D. 1926, when Persia's modern-minded Reza Shah Pahlavi began his reign, set about freeing the women of their veils, ordered the men into Western suits and decided that nomadic existence was "a blot on his progressive country." Harried by the Shah's troops, the nomadic tribes "settled," but in 1941, when Reza was forced to abdicate after the Allies moved into Persia, the tribes went back...
Idyl's End. Author Cronin scarcely lives up to Herodotus or Hakluyt, for nowadays history is considered more "creative" if it is presented as fiction. Cronin has recast historic events in a form which the Persians call dastan, i.e., "near-factual history, almost myth." But the hero of this dastan will be remembered: Ghazan Khan, nomad chief of a tribe that Cronin calls the Falqani and a man hopelessly caught in the paradoxes of progress...
...BOOK OF THE SEA, edited by A. C. Spectorsky (488 pp.; Appleton-Cen-tury-Crotts; $10), contains some of the world's greatest writing on the sea from Thucydides and Richard Hakluyt to Conrad and Alan Villiers...
Columbus & John Smith. The Parke-Bernet man dug deeper. He found a copy of Hakluyt's Principall Navigations . . . dated 1589; a printed letter in Latin by Christopher Columbus describing his trip to the New World; Captain John Smith's history of Virginia and Massachusetts; and John Eliot's 1663 translation of the Bible into the Algonquian Indian language. Finally, Parke-Bernet announced that it would be delighted to sell the collection. It should bring, at auction, from...
Among geographers, historians, and men of letters, Iceland has not fared well. Pliny barely admitted the place was anything more than a myth. An anonymous 10th-Century English poet called it "a gallows of slush." Hakluyt said: "To speak of Iceland is little need; save of stockfish." Shakespeare thought of the Icelander as a "prick-eared cur." Socially conscious Poet Hugh Wystan Auden, visiting in 1936 and 1937, wrote: "There's handsome scenery but little agricultural machinery...