Tales from the life of Bruce Wannell : adventurer, linguist, orientalist /
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London :
Sickle Moon Books,
2020
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Table of Contents:
- A Student of Language and Life p. 29
- A litter of gourmands p. 31 / Julian Wannell
- Brown-haired and strikingly aesthetic p. 33 / John Martin Robinson
- Picnics on the rooftop p. 35 / Matthew Harragin
- Isis, but thousands of miles from Egypt p. 38 / Neil Stratton
- An embarkation to Watteau-land p. 40 / James Ramsay
- Over a low flame p. 43 / Artemis Cooper
- Tax inspector p. 44 / John Batten
- Random memories p. 46 / Carla Gabrieli
- Afghanistan and Pakistan, 1985-98 p. 49
- Reading the Quran in Arabic in the early morning p. 51 / Abdal Samad/David Summers
- A gift normally only bestowed on royalty p. 53 / Jonathan L. Lee
- Kandahar, Afghanistan, April 1992 p. 56 / John Butt
- Musical memories p. 60 / Gordon Adam
- Neighbour in Pakistan p. 62 / Brigitte Neubacher
- Inshallah p. 64 / Lyse Doucet
- A life between adventure, Sufism and music p. 66 / Ulrike Vestring
- Bound for Baluchistan p. 68 / Frances Dodd
- A pianist and a cellist meet in Pakistan p. 69 / Jean Gianfranceschi
- The most interesting year of my life p. 72 / Elisabeth Rubi
- Speaking better than perfect French p. 76 / Anthony Fitzherbert
- From Arcadia to the Hindu Kush p. 81 / Kate Quartano Brown
- Two letters to Fynn Vergos p. 85 / Bruce Wannell
- A Modern Battuta p. 95
- Taliban marching powder p. 97 / Kevin Rushby
- Bruce: back into the blue p. 102 / Tim Mackintosh-Smith
- Cairo transformed p. 104 / Julian Reilly and Bojana Mojsov
- Bruce and Mahmoud p. 106 / Eric Stobbaerts and Adnan Ali
- Simon Everard Digby (1932-2010) p. 109 / Bruce Wannell
- Shaykh Abdu Rahim al-Bura'i, the Sufi p. 116 / Bruce Wannell
- The book that never was by the most interesting man in the world p. 126 / Nova Robinson
- Recollections: returning to Afghanistan p. 130 / Bruce Wannell
- Free-Scholar, Translator and Teacher p. 135
- Bruce in Kabul p. 137 / Thomas Wide
- Timurid epitaphs, harpsichord and saffron p. 142 / Andy Miller
- A Sufi returns p. 145 / Fitzroy Morrissey
- ... and then from his cape .. p. 147 / Moin Mir
- Whenever our paths crossed p. 150 / Tahir Shah
- Bruce at Galle p. 152 / Razeen Sally
- Someone I needed in my life p. 155 / Richard McClary
- Editing Bruce p. 157 / Bijan Omrani
- Meet at Rustem Pasha p. 160 / Janet and Paul Starkey
- Lothians to Lahore p. 164 / Isabel Buchanan
- Speak to that gentleman over there p. 166 / Gianni Dubbini Venier
- Persian grammar p. 171 / Charlie Gammell
- Sour maids and other career advice p. 172 / Ben Cuddon
- 'over the Kachikani glacier into Swat...' p. 174 / Nick Buchan
- Breakfast with Bruce p. 176 / Lydia Wilson
- A garden close to the tomb of Sa'di p. 178 / Robert Maxwell
- Persian cooking p. 182 / Bruce Wannell
- Sufi poetry for Amnesty p. 187 / Graham Henderson
- Rumi p. 189 / Alan Williams
- Designing books with Bruce p. 192 / Celia Ward
- A formidable but modest scholar p. 194 / Warwick Ball
- Amateur Musician and Professional Guest p. 199
- It began with Schubert's trout quintet at Isfahan p. 201 / Norman MacSween
- Accompanying Bruce: piano wars p. 204 / Andrew Campbell-Tiech
- Journeys through life p. 208 / Christopher Sykes
- Bruce would call me 'umm-as-salon' p. 211 / Dalu Jones
- Elusive, implausible p. 213 / Joe Roberts
- Bruce comes to the 'rescue' p. 215 / Lucinda Bredin
- Somewhere between Spitfire pilot and steampunk p. 217 / Peter Barker
- The call p. 220 / Julie Bland
- Italy with Bruce p. 222 / Helena Gerrish
- Bruce in Muscat p. 224 / Nicholas Armour
- Bruce has come and gone p. 226 / Ian Blois
- We'll take the Bruce route... p. 233 / Fiona Frame and Kai Price
- With Bruce for Hogarth at the Soane p. 237 / John Nicoll
- Hampi heroes p. 240 / George Michell and John Fritz
- An Italian memory p. 242 / Anthony Eyre
- A carpet bag of reference books p. 244 / Richard Lamborn
- Kamaa p. 246 / James Wannell
- Journey back to the violin p. 251 / Katherine Schofield
- Learning from a master at work p. 257 / Sina Fakhroddin Ghaffari
- Dragoman Bruce p. 263
- Bruce the host p. 265 / Gwendolyn Leick
- His Flemish was camp, singing, poetic ... p. 268 / Sylvie Franquet
- Butter p. 269 / Rose Baring
- Bruce as dragoman p. 271 / Antony Wynn
- Reminding locals of good, forgotten traditions p. 273 / Reza Mir
- Before the gate of the legation p. 276 / Richard Lambert
- A stranger closer than a friend p. 278 / Dori Dana-Haeri
- With Bruce to the Hadramaut p. 279 / Sally Sampson
- The signature of the calligrapher p. 281 / Canan Alioglu
- Bruce on tour p. 283 / Amelia Stewart
- Dragoman extraordinaire p. 286 / Warwick Ball
- Persian picnics p. 292 / Barnaby Rogerson
- From godfather to friend p. 299 / William and Alec Harragin
- If he was kidnapped... p. 301 / Heather Wannell
- Literary Partnership p. 303
- William Dalrymple p. 305
- Three Farewells p. 331
- Pots, pottering and cintamani p. 333 / Isabel Denyer
- Moscow, 1971 p. 336 / George Lemos
- Bruce's house p. 342 / Nick Robinson.