Format:
1 Online-Ressource (277 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781900209267
Content:
Intro -- The book that never was by the most interesting man in the world -- TITLE PAGE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHRONOLOGY -- A STUDENT OF LANGUAGE AND LIFE -- A litter of gourmands: Julian Wannell -- Brown-haired and strikingly aesthetic: John Martin Robinson -- Picnics on the rooftop: Matthew Harragin -- Isis, but thousands of miles from Egypt: Neil Stratton -- An embarkation to Watteau-land: James Ramsay -- Over a low flame: Artemis Cooper -- Tax inspector: John Batten -- Random memories: Carla Gabrieli -- AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN, 1985-98 -- Reading the Quran in Arabic in the early morning: Abdal Samad /David Summers -- A gift normally only bestowed on royalty: Jonathan L. Lee -- Kandahar, Afghanistan, April 1992: John Butt -- Musical memories: Gordon Adam -- Neighbour in Pakistan: Brigitte Neubacher -- Inshallah: Lyse Doucet -- A life between adventure, Sufism and music: Ulrike Vestring -- Bound for Baluchistan: Frances Dodd -- A pianist and a cellist meet in Pakistan: Jean Gianfranceschi -- The most interesting year of my life: Elisabeth Rubi -- Speaking better than perfect French: Anthony Fitzherbert -- From Arcadia to the Hindu Kush: Kate Quartano Brown -- Two Letters to Fynn Vergos: Bruce Wannell -- A MODERN BATTUTA -- Taliban marching powder: Kevin Rushby -- Bruce: back into the blue: Tim Mackintosh-Smith -- Cairo transformed: Julian Reilly and Bojana Mojsov -- Bruce and Mahmoud: Eric Stobbaerts and Adnan Ali -- Simon Everard Digby (1932-2010): Bruce Wannell -- Shaykh Abdu Rahim al-Bura'i, the Sufi: Bruce Wannell -- The book that never was by the most interesting man in the world: Nova Robinson -- Recollections: returning to Afghanistan: Bruce Wannell -- FREE-SCHOLAR, TRANSLATOR AND TEACHER -- Bruce in Kabul: Thomas Wide -- Timurid epitaphs, harpsichord and saffron: Andy Miller -- A Sufi returns: Fitzroy Morrissey.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781900209250
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781900209250
Language:
English
Keywords:
Biografie
