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Blood and Oil in the Orient (Paperback)
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Blood and Oil in the Orient (Paperback)
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An Autobiography like Something Out of the Arabian Nights In this
lively and witty autobiography, Essad Bey, a.k.a. Lev Nussimbaum,
tells us the story of his childhood in Baku, the capital of
Azerbaijan, and of his flight from the Russian Revolution in 1917,
which brought him first straight through the Caucasus, then to
Istanbul - where this book concludes - and finally to Berlin. When
Essad Bey speaks of the people of the Caucasus and their customs so
strange to us, a sort of anthropological cabinet of curiosities
unfolds before our eyes, and we cannot help but be astonished. All
the while, through his affectionate and sometimes openly ironic
words, even the excesses of the Revolution sound like children's
pranks and his hair-raising escape like an adventure novel. "Blood
and Oil in the Orient" is an informative and entertaining book; in
the 1930s, it was a bestseller in the U.S. and Germany.
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