Rory Stewart, COOL UNDER FIRE, INTELLGENT LIFE magazine, September/October 2011 And yet it is not a depressing place. I first saw it at the beginning of 2002. I had walked from Herat to Kabul that winter. I had seen hundreds of pickaxe-wielding villagers, directed by Pakistani traders, uncovering, looting and destroying the ancient city of […]
Monatsarchiv für October 2011
Lecture
Lecture-cum-Seminar series of the project “Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship”. The complete schedule can be viewed at https://www.forum-transregionale-studien.de/fileadmin/pdf/LcS-winter2011-12.pdf We would like to invite you to the first lecture and seminar in this series: BODHISATTVA KAR Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta / Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam “EMPIRE AND ETYMONS: THE PHILOLOGICAL […]
Greatest Victorian Explorer
John Speke, the greatest Victorian explorer? by William Boyd, in TLS, 5 Oct 2011 Burton, Speke, Livingstone, Stanley and Baker were all notable outsiders, driven by their own egos, demons and motives. And Africa acted as a potent catalyst. Solitude, strangeness, danger and the lure of great fame and wealth (not to be forgotten) propelled […]
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