Travels in a Dervish Cloak [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Wilkinson, Isambard

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ISBN 10: 178060078X ISBN 13: 9781780600789

Casa editrice: Eland Pub Ltd, 2017

Riassunto

Since 9/11 the reader has been inundated with academic volumes about radical Islam, the geo-political alliances of Pakistan and the identity of the Taliban. What has been lacking is Travels in a Dervish Cloak, an affectionate, hashish-scented travel book, full of humour and delight, written by a young Irish foreign correspondent living on his wits, on the contacts from his grandmother s address book and with a kidney given to him by his brother. Others might have conserved this gift of a life-saving kidney by living a sober and quiet life, but it had the opposite affect on Isambard Wilkinson, who took to the adventurous life of a Daily Telegraph foreign correspondent like a cat assured of nine lives. His rich and wonderfully intimate picture of Pakistan describes the country in all its exuberant, colourful, contemporary glory. It s a place where past empires, be they Mughal or Raj, continue to shine like old gold beneath the chaotic jigsaw of Baluch, Punjabi, Sindi and Pashtun peoples, not to mention warlords, hereditary saints, bandit landlords, smugglers and party-mad socialites. The only way to understand the contradictions is to plunge into the riot of differences, and to come out grinning.

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... conjures up the best of Thubron and Dalrymple while being informed by a distinctive voice, a deep knowledge of Pakistan s tragic history and an unusual commitment to that country based on close family links. --Dervla Murphy, author of Full Tilt

At last a wonderful account of Pakistan s riches, its mysticism, Puritanism and hedonism. As vibrant as a Baluchi market, this engaging travelogue untangles the feudal, tribal and Islamic threads of one of the most important yet misunderstood countries. --Tim Butcher, author of Blood River

... an affectionate, funny, satisfying book about Pakistan in extremis. --Daniyal Mueenuddin, author of In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

L'autore

Isambard Wilkinson was born in 1971. As a young boy in Ireland, he listened to family stories of adventurous botanists and artists, sailors and soldiers who travelled through China and Africa, India and Albania. It fired an urge to roam. Expelled from school at 15, after university he was refused entry into the Royal Marines and instead worked for Country Life magazine before leaving to travel throughout Pakistan, an ambition curtailed by kidney failure. After a stretch on dialysis and his first kidney transplant, he became a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph in Spain, and then in Pakistan, where he completed his travels, the subject of this book. Following a second transplant, he now works for AFP in Hong Kong.

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• Editore: Eland Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 178060078X
• ISBN 13: 9781780600789
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256