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A Journey in Khorassan and Central Asia is a short, privately printed account by the author, Robert J. Kennedy, of a journey that he and his wife, Bertha Kennedy, took through northeastern Persia (present-day Iran) and parts of Russian Central Asia in March‒April 1890. At the time Kennedy was the chargé d’affaires at the British legation in Tehran. The journey is described in three parts: from Tehran to Meshed (also known as Mashhad, the largest city in Khorasan Province); from Meshed to Dushak (in present-day Turkmenistan) and from ...