This book examines cultural images of the Orient 'other' in nineteenth-century literary texts via an Englishman's lens, as such representations are important to Orientalism, the Occident 'Imperial' It argues that a holistic understanding of the Orient's depiction necessitates examining several writings by the same author; hence, it evaluates the author's relationship with the Orient. Historians concentrated on Persia and Turkey for many reasons. James Justinian Morier's birth in Izmir (Turkey) a ...