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SUMMARY:Anabel Loyd: The Dervish Bowl (Book Launch)
DESCRIPTION:The Dervish Bowl\n\n\n\nThe Many Lives of Arminius Vambéry\n\n  \n \n  \n\n\n‘A compelling portrait of one of the 19th century’s most characteristic heroes’\nAsian Review of Books \n‘Arminius Vambéry was one of the shadier characters to travel the fabled Silk Roads through Persia to Central Asia. His mostly forgotten story is vividly told in Anabel Loyd’s lively and entertaining biography.’\nAnthony Sattin\, author of Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World \n‘There have been many hagiographies written about Arminius Vambery – mainly by Arminius himself – so it’s refreshing to read of his life in unvarnished detail. Anabel Loyd captures the different facets and flaws of this complex traveller\, who seemed to fit everywhere and nowhere.’\nChris Aslan\, author of Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia \n‘Anabel Loyd’s biography of Arminius Vambéry is a fascinating book and a masterly study. It is both a mine of so far unknown information as well as a thrilling read which will benefit both the scholar and the general reader.’\nChristoph Baumer\, author of The History of Central Asia in Four Volumes \nWho was Arminius Vambéry? A poverty-stricken\, Jewish autodidact; a linguist; traveller\, and writer; or a sometime Zionist\, inspiration for Dracula’s nemesis\, and British secret agent? \nVambéry 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 Game’\, in which Russia and Britain jostled for territory\, influence\, and control of the borders and gateways to India and its wealth\, Vambréy played the roles of hero and double-dealer\, of fascinated witness and Imperial charlatan. \nThe Dervish Bowl is the story of these competing narratives\, a compelling investigation of the ever-changing persona Vambréy created for himself\, and of the man who emerges from his private correspondence and the accounts of both his friends and his enemies\, many of whom were themselves major players in the geopolitical adventures of the volatile nineteenth-century – a time when Britain’s ambitions for her empire were at their height\, yet nothing and no one was quite as they seemed. \nANABEL LOYD has been a regular columnist for the Indian Telegraph for many years. She has lived and worked in India and has a particular interest in the Indian history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. \nRead Anabel’s blog piece\, ‘No Change for Turkmenistan’ on the RSAA blog here.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/anabel-loyd-the-dervish-bowl-book-launch/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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