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Central Asian Studies
Central Asian Studies continues a series of scholarly books on Central Asia and the Himalayas started in the early 1970s by a British publisher. The series comprises some re-issues of the previous books, as well as new titles. NOTE: Limited availability of some of the older titles.
Architecture
  Living with the Desert
Working Buildings on the Iranian Plateau
by Elisabeth Beazley and Michael Harverson
1982. 132 pp., 60 plates and illustrations, 33 x 23 cm., softbound.
ISBN-10: 974-8304-64-7 $36.00
ISBN-13: 978-974-8304-64-9


An examination of adaptations made to cope with the harsh climate of the Iranian Plateau. A detailed study not only of grand religious and military structures, but also those of ordinary people. Well supported by copious maps, diagrams and photographs.

"This is a carefully researched, beautifully produced work of scholarship which should not be missed." (SPAB)

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