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Oriental Encounters

Oriental Encounters

Marmaduke Pickthall

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Pomona Press
Año de edición:
2006
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Ficción clásica
ISBN:
9781406794922
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In Oriental Encounters, Mr. Pickthall relives hie earlier manhood’s discovery of Arabia and sympathetic encounters with the Eastern mind. He is one of the few travellers who really bridges the racial gulf.

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