A thousand years ago, Nasir-I Khasraw, a Persian poet and his brother set out from Kharasan which is now in Iran and headed west. Don’t be put off by the first ten or twelve pages, because once Khasraw gets further along on his seven-year epic journey through Middle Eastern countries, he becomes better at recording what he sees. 

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