Free Download Barnaby Rogerson, Rose Baring, "Tales from the Life of Bruce Wannell: Adventurer, Linguist, Orientalist"
English | 2020 | pages: 353 | ISBN: 190020925X | PDF | 18,3 mb
Bruce Wannell was the greatest Orientalist traveler of his generation: a Paddy Leigh Fermor of the East, a Kim for our own time. He lived in Iran through the 1979 revolution, worked for a decade in the North West Frontier during the wars in Afghanistan and could transcribe the most complex Arabic calligraphy by sight. Although he lived in the lands of Islam he also knew all the artistic treasures of Christendom. His curious combination of talents - scholar, linguist, musician, translator and teacher - were duplicated by an international network of friendships with poets, spies, aid-workers, diplomats, artists and writers.