Vámbéry tells his own story, from a poor and lame Hungarian boyhood and hungry years of study to life in Stambul and the journey east from Trebizond and Erzerum. Disguised as a Sunni dervish, he travelled through Persia to Khiva, Bukhara and Samarkand, witnessing slave markets and prisoners in chains, and he addresses a special chapter to the boys of England.
One of the great nineteenth-century travel autobiographies, from a pioneer of Turkic studies. Download the free EPUB.