Alphonse Gabriel's Travelogue; The Song of the Sands

"Song of the Sands in the Pristine Desert of Iran" is the story of the amazing travels of Alphonse Gabriel, an Austrian physician and traveler who set foot in the heart of the Iranian deserts with a scientific and poetic perspective. In the 1920s and 1930s, he traveled with his wife Agnes von Kummer to the most remote and unknown parts of the Iranian deserts and carefully recorded his observations of the pristine nature, the life of the desert people and Iranian culture. This book is not only a travelogue, but also a journey into the depths of history, geography and the human spirit; a journey that takes the reader with him to the world of the silent but mysterious deserts of Iran; where the silence of the sands tells the loudest stories.