Artist Explorer: A Ride Through Persia to India in 1892
by Edwin Lord Weeks

It was this equestrian journey from Persia to India that provided Weeks, a noted artist of his day, with the material, not only for a superb equestrian travel book, but the magnificent paintings of mythical India which assured him of artistic immortality. Accompanied by the noted travel writer, Theodore Child, the young adventurers set off to ride from Trebizond to Bushire. During the course of their journey the two friends encountered a bevy of bad lodgings, bandits, and even death. For ultimately only Weeks managed to ride into India, after having lost his companion to the terrors of the trail. Though the brilliant expatriate artist went on to produce some of the most celebrated Indian paintings ever done, his beautifully written account of the equestrian journey which inspired his masterpieces, has been largely forgotten for more than a hundred years.

Amply illustrated with drawings done during this historic journey, Artist Explorer recounts the amazing adventures of a painter who sought to study the world and his soul from the back of that ancient altar of travel, the saddle.

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