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The Dervish Bowl: The Many Lives of Arminius Vambéry
By Anabel Loyd
Hardcover
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By Anabel Loyd
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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 writeror 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 Ga...
Who was Arminius Vámbéry? A poverty-stricken, Jewish autodidact; a linguist, traveler, and writeror 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 Ga...