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The Dervish Bowl
- The Many Lives of Arminius Vambery
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Dervish Bowl af Anabel Loyd, 9781913368975
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
397
ISBN-13:
9781913368975
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1913368971
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
12 sep 2024
Størrelse i cm:
24,3 x 16,2 x 3,5
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
12 sep 2024
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The Dervish Bowl

- The Many Lives of Arminius Vambery
Engelsk
Hardback 2024
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A narrative of the life of Arminius Vámbéry.

Who was Arminius Vámbéry? A poverty-stricken, Jewish autodidact; a linguist, traveler, and writer—or a sometime Zionist, inspiration for Dracula’s nemesis, and British secret agent? Vámbéry wrote his own story many times over, and it was these often highly embroidered accounts of journeys through Persia and Central Asia that saw him acclaimed in Victorian England as an intrepid explorer and daring adventurer. Against the backdrop of the “Great Game,” in which Russia and Britain jostled for territory, influence, and control of the borders and gateways to India and its wealth, Vámbéry played the roles of hero and double-dealer, of fascinated witness and imperialist charlatan.

The Dervish Bowl is the story of these competing narratives and a compelling investigation of both the ever-changing persona Vámbéry created for himself and the man who emerges from his private correspondence and the accounts of both his friends and his enemies, many of whom were themselves major players in the geopolitical adventures of the volatile nineteenth century—a time when Britain’s ambitions for her empire were at their height, yet nothing and no one was quite as they seemed.
 
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
397
ISBN-13:
9781913368975
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1913368971
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
12 sep 2024
Størrelse i cm:
24,3 x 16,2 x 3,5
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
12 sep 2024
Forfatter(e):
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