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Blind White Fish in Persia (Penguin Travel Library)

paperbackDecember 4, 1990
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ISBN-13: 9780140095968 ISBN-10: 0140095969
Publisher
Penguin
Binding
paperback
Published
December 4, 1990
Weight
0.5 lbs
Dimensions
12.70×2.50×17.80 cm

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Blind White Fish in Persia (Penguin Travel Library) by Smith, Anthony. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780140095968.

This book gives an account of a small Oxford University expedition to Persia in 1950 to bring back specimens of a fish, allegedly white and sightless, which was said to inhabit the underground water-courses of Iran. Though the four young men that made up the expedition failed in their quest, they discovered rural Persia where villagers still led medieval lives. The story includes an account of the qanats - the underground irrigation and tunnels employing ancient technology which still criss-cross the country making life in the desert possible.