Blood and Oil in the Orient

Posted on 13 February 2018 by Essad Bey

An Autobiography like Something Out of the Arabian Nights In this lively and witty autobiography, Essad Bey, a.k.a Lev Nussimbaum, tells us the story of his childhood in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, and of his flight from the Russian Revolution in 1917, which brought him first straight through the Caucasus, then to Istanbul where this book concludes and finally to Berlin When Essad Bey speaks of the people of the Caucasus and their customs so strange to us, a sort of anthropological cabinet of curiosities unfolds before our eyes, and we cannot help but be astonished All the while, through his affectionate and sometimes openly ironic words, even the excesses of the Revolution sound like children s pranks and his hair raising escape like an adventure novel Blood and Oil in the Orient is an informative and entertaining book in the 1930s, it was a bestseller in the U.S and Germany. Download Blood and Oil in the Orient by Essad Bey – kino-fada.fr While Blood and Oil was supposed to be autobiographical non fiction much of it is made up by the author The author Essad Bey was really born Lev Nussimbaum He claimed to be a Muslim of noble birth but he was really jewish His father really did become wealthy in the oil industry of the in the Russian Empire before the Russian Revolution Lev Nussimbaum Essad Bey s life is examined in the recent book the Orientalist After reading the Orientalist by Tom Reiss I wanted to read something by Essad While Blood and Oil was supposed to be autobiographical non fiction much of it is made up by the author The author Essad Bey was really born Lev Nussimbaum He claimed to ...Loved it.An amazing account of childhood and adolesence in multi cultural Baku The veracity especially of the story of his escape has been questioned the author was known as a bit of a con man in Berlin, after all , which ma...This was written back in another era and is one person s story of growing up the the Middle East oil boom.Interesting, but not written in an engaging style The story flowed, but narrative didn t I found it hard to plough through.This was a fine book from the early days of the oil boom in the Middle East I believe it was a true story.

English
13 February 2018

Essad Bey