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Tales from the life of Bruce Wannell
Adventurer, Linguist, Orientalist|
11,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Eland Publishing |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 01.09.2020 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781900209267 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 331 |
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Beschreibungen
Bruce Wannell was the greatest Orientalist traveller of his generation: a Paddy Leigh Fermor of the East, a Kim for our time. He lived through the Iranian Revolution, worked for a decade in the North West Frontier during the wars in Afghanistan, could transcribe the most complex Arabic calligraphy by sight and spoke Iranian and Afghan Persian with a dazzling, poetic fluency. His curious combination of talents – linguist, musician, translator and teacher – were duplicated by an international network of friendships with scholars, poets, spies, aid-workers, archaeologists, diplomats, artists and writers. Bruce could quote Hafez from memory, rustle up a lethal cocktail, lose himself in Brahms, open any door, organise a concert within days of arriving in a foreign city or walk across a mountain with just walnuts and dried mulberries in his pocket. He was a true original, remembered here with affection, humour and wonder by over eighty of his friends and collaborators.
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