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SIR PERCY SYKES was a true embodiment of the tradition which makes a British officer posted in the East take interest in every aspect of Nature and life around him. His geographical exploration much exceeded the utilitarian purposes of his official duties. His earliest and most original work, "Ten Thousand Miles in Persia, or Eight Years in Persia" (1902), was very favourably received both in Great Britain and abroad. It contains a great mass of fresh observations on the antiquities, history and ethnology of eastern Persia. The work was continued in a series of reports on the journeys in Khorasan, etc., written in the same vein and published in the Geographical Journal, Small notices on the Gypsies, the Parsis and prehistoric remains, which he contributed to such organs as the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, etc., were also interesting, and often started further useful discussion among the specialists.
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MINORSKY, V. [Obituaries]. Nature 156, 104–105 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156104b0
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