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    Tales from the Life of Bruce Wannell: Adventurer, Linguist, Orientalist (Sickle Moon Books for Eland Publishing) X,

    Table of contents :
    CONTENTS
    INTRODUCTION
    CHRONOLOGY
    A STUDENT OF LANGUAGE AND LIFE
    AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN,
    A MODERN BATTUTA
    FREE-SCHOLAR, TRANSLATOR AND TEACHER
    AMATEUR MUSICIAN AND PROFESSIONAL GUEST
    DRAGOMAN BRUCE
    LITERARY PARTNERSHIP
    THREE FAREWELLS
    AFTERWORD - Bruce&#;s last performance

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    Tales from the life of

    Bruce Wannell Adventurery Linguist) Orientalist

    Bruce \Vannell was the greatest Orientalist traveller of his generation: a Paddy Leigh Fermor of the East, a Kim for our time. He had lived through the Iranian Re\'olution, worked for a decade in the orrh \Vest Frontier during the wars in Afghanistan, could transcribe the most complex Arabic calligraphy by sight and spoke Iranian and Afghan Persian with a dazzling, poetic fluency. His curious combination of talents - linguist, musician, translator and teacher - were duplicated by an international network of friendships with scholars, poets, spies, aidworkers, archaeologists, diplomats, artists and writers. Bruce could quote Hafcz from memory, rustic up a lethal cocktail, lose himself in Brahms, open any door, organise a concert within days of arriving in a foreign city o

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    Afghanistan

    Country in Central and South Asia

    For other uses, see Afghanistan (disambiguation).

    "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" redirects here. For the group, see Taliban. For the state that existed from to , see Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (–).

    Afghanistan,[e] officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,[f] is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south,[g]Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China to the northeast and east. Occupying , square kilometers (,&#;sq&#;mi) of land, the country is predominantly mountainous with plains in the north and the southwest, which are separated by the Hindu Kush mountain range. Kabul is the country's capital and largest city. Afghanistan's population is estimated to be between 36–50 million.[d]

    Human habitation in Afghanistan dates to the Middle Paleolithic era. Popularly referred to as the graveyard of empires,[34] the land has witnessed numerous military campaigns, including those by the Persians, Alexander the Great, the Maurya Empire, Arab Muslims, the Mongols, the British, the Soviet Union, and a US-led coalition. Afgh