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Oriental Encounters
Artikel-Nr:
9781443734929
Veröffentl:
2008
Einband:
HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Erscheinungsdatum:
04.11.2008
Seiten:
220
Autor:
Marmaduke Pickthall
Gewicht:
449 g
Format:
222x145x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Described by E. M. Forster as "the only contemporary English novelist who understands the Nearer East," Marmaduke Pickthall's adult life defied his upbringing. The son of an English country parson, as a young man he travelled through Syria and Palestine, and on his return to England penned Saïd the Fisherman, a novel praised by D. H. Lawrence and H. G. Wells. His unconventional role in the First World War and his years in India, where he ultimately translated Islam's holiest text, meant he was a forgotten figure in the land of his birth.
In Oriental Encounters, Mr. Pickthall relives hie earlier manhood's discovery of Arabia and sympathetic encounters with the Eastern mind. He is one of the few travellers who really bridges the racial gulf.