Bimbashi McPherson: a life in Egypt
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1983
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| Item Description: | Joseph McPherson, a classical scholar with an Oxford degree in Natural Sciences, a linguist, athlete and determined individualist, arrived in Egypt in 1901. He fell in love with the country, its people and customs and stayed there until his death in 1946. During that time he wrote thousands of pages of letters home and this volume presents an edited selection of these. McPherson was a born storyteller. With these letters he takes his place among that select company of writers and diarists who, while itemising their own lives, illumine the history of their times. He started out in Cairo as a teacher, using his holidays to travel all over the Middle East and Asia Minor. The First World War finds him in Gallipoli, clinically observing and brilliantly describing the doomed campaign and then later the Sinai desert at the Battles of Romani and Gaza, encouraging his Egyptian cameleers to charge shouting the war-cry of the McPherson clan. The last episodes of his career make equally enthralling reading, when he became "Mamur Zapt", the Head of the Secret Police in Cairo, hot on the trail of drug dealers, exotic Madames and intriguers in the brothels of Cairo, and the burgeoning Egyptian revolutionaries. As Durrell remarks (in his preface): "there have been many books of political analysis and of gossip but nothing (that I have seen) which bears the authentic stamp of first hand knowledge as this one does |
| Physical Description: | 313 S. zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 0563201347 |
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| spelling | McPherson, Joseph W. 1866-1946 Verfasser (DE-588)136612032 aut Bimbashi McPherson a life in Egypt ed. by Barry Carman ... A life in Egypt 1. publ. London British Broadcasting Corp. 1983 313 S. zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Joseph McPherson, a classical scholar with an Oxford degree in Natural Sciences, a linguist, athlete and determined individualist, arrived in Egypt in 1901. He fell in love with the country, its people and customs and stayed there until his death in 1946. During that time he wrote thousands of pages of letters home and this volume presents an edited selection of these. McPherson was a born storyteller. With these letters he takes his place among that select company of writers and diarists who, while itemising their own lives, illumine the history of their times. He started out in Cairo as a teacher, using his holidays to travel all over the Middle East and Asia Minor. The First World War finds him in Gallipoli, clinically observing and brilliantly describing the doomed campaign and then later the Sinai desert at the Battles of Romani and Gaza, encouraging his Egyptian cameleers to charge shouting the war-cry of the McPherson clan. The last episodes of his career make equally enthralling reading, when he became "Mamur Zapt", the Head of the Secret Police in Cairo, hot on the trail of drug dealers, exotic Madames and intriguers in the brothels of Cairo, and the burgeoning Egyptian revolutionaries. As Durrell remarks (in his preface): "there have been many books of political analysis and of gossip but nothing (that I have seen) which bears the authentic stamp of first hand knowledge as this one does McPherson, J. W <1866-1946> (Joseph Williams) Egypt - Social life, 1901-1946 - Personal observations - Correspondence, diaries, etc Lehrer Police Egypt Correspondence Teachers Egypt Correspondence Egypt Description and travel Egypt Officials and employees Correspondence Carman, Barry Sonstige oth |
| spellingShingle | McPherson, Joseph W. 1866-1946 Bimbashi McPherson a life in Egypt McPherson, J. W <1866-1946> (Joseph Williams) Egypt - Social life, 1901-1946 - Personal observations - Correspondence, diaries, etc Lehrer Police Egypt Correspondence Teachers Egypt Correspondence |
| title | Bimbashi McPherson a life in Egypt |
| title_alt | A life in Egypt |
| title_auth | Bimbashi McPherson a life in Egypt |
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| topic | McPherson, J. W <1866-1946> (Joseph Williams) Egypt - Social life, 1901-1946 - Personal observations - Correspondence, diaries, etc Lehrer Police Egypt Correspondence Teachers Egypt Correspondence |
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