The Last Migration
by Vincent Cronin
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Vincent Cronin (1924-2011) was a British historical, cultural, and biographical writer. Acclaimed as one of the finest popular historians of his generation, he is best known for his two-volume history of the Renaissance and his biographies of Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon.
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- Canonical title
- The Last Migration
- Original publication date
- 1957
- People/Characters
- Falqani (pseudonym for the Qashqai); Qashqai (as Falqani); Ghazan Falqani (ilkhan of the Falqani); Tughril (khan of the Shalguli); Rohim (Tughril's son); Ahmad (Ghazan's shepherd) (show all 7); Anahita (Ghazan's betrothed)
- Important places
- Iran; Tehran, Iran; Fars, Iran; Shiraz, Iran; Persepolis, Iran; Meshed, Iran (show all 7); Guyum, Fars, Iran
- Dedication
- For Chantal
- First words
- Darkness covered this part of the earth.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)There already, in response to the spring sun, gazelle and ibex, partridge and francolin, with beasts and birds of prey on their trail, were beginning their long journey northwards: up the parched plain and along cooler, glass-dappled slopes - bare of men, bare of flocks - to the first crest of the Zagros, where, open to a cloudless blue sky and blending with the hills around, a rough-hewn stone marked Ghazan's last encampment.
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