Tales from the life of Bruce Wannell
Adventurer, Linguist, Orientalist
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, rust…
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Weitere Autoren: Baring, Rose (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-900209-26-7
- EAN: 9781900209267
- Produktnummer: 34607449
- Verlag: Eland Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 331 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 905 KB
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