Travels and Adventures of the Rev. Joseph Wolff, D.D., LL.D.: Late Missionary to the Jews and Muhammadans in Persia, Bokhara, Cashmeer, etc.

Published in 1861, this work in the third person, dictated by Joseph Wolff (1795–1862) to friends, is an epic miscellany of stories. Wolff, the son of a rabbi, had a peripatetic Middle European childhood. He converted to Christianity in 1812, studying Near Eastern languages in Vienna and Tübingen, and theology in Rome – until he was expelled by the Inquisition for heretical views. He eventually moved to England, working for the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews. Beg...