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Pearls Arms And Hashish
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Author : Henri de Monfreid
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2018-04-03
Pearls Arms And Hashish written by Henri de Monfreid and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
First published in 1930, this is the personal adventure narrative of Henri de Monfreid—nobleman, writer, adventurer and inspiration for the swashbuckling gun runner in the Adventures of Tintin. “Henri de Monfried satisfies the most exacting reader. One is never for a moment suspicious that his amanuensis is crediting him with words he could not use or thoughts he would not entertain. The impression conveyed by Ida Treat's really superb rendering of the French searover's story is that M. de Monfried could write very well indeed if he thought it worthwhile, but that he expresses himself as a rule in other ways. “Briefly, Henri de Monfried is the son of a Bostonian artist of French descent who lived in the south of France and married a French peasant girl. The boy grew up and tried various callings, but finally yielded to a Wanderlust which took him to French Somaliland, at the southern end of the Red Sea. He became a Moslem and engaged in pearling, gunrunning, slaving, and the smuggling of hashish into Egypt. He has a family. He is fifty years old. The Arabs call him Abd el Hai. This book is what he calls the first half of his life. He is too interested in life itself to take consolation in memoirs as yet. The British navy calls him the Sea Wolf. He makes a hobby of raising the French flag on islands inconveniently near to British coaling stations. “There are [...] sketches of sea-boards and seamen in this book which recall the master's hand and mind. And there is never a word too much. A touch light as a feather; an ironical glance as his adversary departs defeated, or an equally ironical bow as the British Lion mauls him and lets him go—to try again.”—Saturday Review
Pearls Arms And Hashish
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Author : Henri de Monfreid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
Pearls Arms And Hashish written by Henri de Monfreid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Adventure and adventurers categories.
Pearl Arms And Hashish
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Author : Henri De Monfried
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-28
Pearl Arms And Hashish written by Henri De Monfried and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-28 with Social Science categories.
Nobleman, writer, adventurer and inspiration for the swashbuckling gun runner in the Adventures of Tintin, Henri de Monfried lived by his own account 'a rich, restless, magnificent life' as one of the great travellers of his or any age. Infamous as well as famous, his name is inextricably linked to the Red Sea and the raffish ports between Suez and Aden in the early years of the twentieth century. This is a compelling account of how de Monfried sought his fortune by becoming a collector and merchant of the fabled Gulf pearls, and was then drawn into the shadowy world of arms trading, slavery, smuggling and drugs. Hashish was the drug of choice, and de Monfried writes of sailing to Suez with illegal cargoes, dodging blockades and pirates. This compelling book is a unique and detailed portrayal of a colourful and dangerous world that has now disappeared. It allows us to share in the exhilarating adventures of a legend whose love for the sea and zest for life run across every page.
Pearls Arms And Hashish
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Author : Henri De Monfried
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-09-11
Pearls Arms And Hashish written by Henri De Monfried and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Henri de Monfried, the inspiration for the swashbuckling gunrunner in the Adventures of Tintin, recounts how he became a collector and merchant of the fabled gulf pearls, and his involvement in the shadowy world of arms trading, slavery, and drug smuggling.
Pearls Arms And Hashish
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Author : Henry De Monfreid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10
Pearls Arms And Hashish written by Henry De Monfreid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with categories.
This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.
Pearls Arms And Hashish Pages From The Life Of A Red Sea Navigator Henri De Monfried
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Author : Henry De Monfreid
language : en
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Release Date : 2021-09-09
Pearls Arms And Hashish Pages From The Life Of A Red Sea Navigator Henri De Monfried written by Henry De Monfreid and has been published by Hassell Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with categories.
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Pearls Arms And Hashish
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Author : Henri de Monfreid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
Pearls Arms And Hashish written by Henri de Monfreid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Middle East categories.
Pearls Arms And Hashish Pages From The Life Of A Red Sea Navigator Henri De Monfreid Collected And Written Down With A Foreword And Conclusion By Idea Treat
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Author : Henry de Monfreid
language : en
Publisher: New York : Coward-McCann
Release Date : 1930
Pearls Arms And Hashish Pages From The Life Of A Red Sea Navigator Henri De Monfreid Collected And Written Down With A Foreword And Conclusion By Idea Treat written by Henry de Monfreid and has been published by New York : Coward-McCann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with categories.
Pearls Arms And Hashish Pages From The Life Of A Red Sea Navigator Henri De Monfried Collected And Written Down By I Treat With Plates Including Portraits
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Author : Ida TREAT
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
Pearls Arms And Hashish Pages From The Life Of A Red Sea Navigator Henri De Monfried Collected And Written Down By I Treat With Plates Including Portraits written by Ida TREAT and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with categories.
Shanghai On The Metro
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Author : Michael B. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28
Shanghai On The Metro written by Michael B. Miller and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with History categories.
Secret agents, gun runners, White Russians, and con men—they all play a part in Michael B. Miller's strikingly original study of interwar France. Based on extensive research in security files and a mass of printed sources, Shanghai on the Métro shows how a distinctive milieu of spies and spy literature emerged between the two world wars, reflecting the atmosphere and concerns of these years. Miller argues that French fascination with intrigue between the wars reveals a far more assured and playful national mood than historians have hitherto discerned in the final decades of the Third Republic. But the larger history set in motion by World War I and the subsequent reading of French history into global history are the true subjects of this work. Reconstituting through his own narratives the histories of interwar travel and adventure and the willful turning of contemporary affairs into a source of romance, Miller recovers the ambience and special qualities of the age that produced its intrigues and its tales of spies. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.