Travels In A Dervish Cloak
by Isambard Wilkinson /
2017 / English / EPUB
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Since 9/11 the reader has been inundated with academic volumes
about radical Islam, the geo-political alliances of Pakistan and
the identity of the Taliban. What has been lacking is Travels in a
Dervish Cloak, an affectionate, hashish-scented travel book, full
of humour and delight, written by a young Irish foreign
correspondent living on his wits, on the contacts from his
grandmother s address book and with a kidney given to him by his
brother. Others might have conserved this gift of a life-saving
kidney by living a sober and quiet life, but it had the opposite
affect on Isambard Wilkinson, who took to the adventurous life of a
Daily Telegraph foreign correspondent like a cat assured of nine
lives. His rich and wonderfully intimate picture of Pakistan
describes the country in all its exuberant, colourful, contemporary
glory. It s a place where past empires, be they Mughal or Raj,
continue to shine like old gold beneath the chaotic jigsaw of
Baluch, Punjabi, Sindi and Pashtun peoples, not to mention
warlords, hereditary saints, bandit landlords, smugglers and
party-mad socialites. The only way to understand the contradictions
is to plunge into the riot of differences, and to come out
grinning.
Since 9/11 the reader has been inundated with academic volumes
about radical Islam, the geo-political alliances of Pakistan and
the identity of the Taliban. What has been lacking is Travels in a
Dervish Cloak, an affectionate, hashish-scented travel book, full
of humour and delight, written by a young Irish foreign
correspondent living on his wits, on the contacts from his
grandmother s address book and with a kidney given to him by his
brother. Others might have conserved this gift of a life-saving
kidney by living a sober and quiet life, but it had the opposite
affect on Isambard Wilkinson, who took to the adventurous life of a
Daily Telegraph foreign correspondent like a cat assured of nine
lives. His rich and wonderfully intimate picture of Pakistan
describes the country in all its exuberant, colourful, contemporary
glory. It s a place where past empires, be they Mughal or Raj,
continue to shine like old gold beneath the chaotic jigsaw of
Baluch, Punjabi, Sindi and Pashtun peoples, not to mention
warlords, hereditary saints, bandit landlords, smugglers and
party-mad socialites. The only way to understand the contradictions
is to plunge into the riot of differences, and to come out
grinning.