Tales from the life of Bruce Wannell (eBook)

Adventurer, Linguist, Orientalist

Barnaby Rogerson, Rose Baring (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
331 Seiten
Eland Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-900209-26-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2020
• Co-Autor: Kevin Rushby, William Dalrymple
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Reisen
• Schlagworte: Afghanistan • Bruce Wannell • Iran • Linguist • Pakistan • Translator
• ISBN-10: 1-900209-26-8 / 1900209268
• ISBN-13: 978-1-900209-26-7 / 9781900209267