Jean-Baptiste Poncet is practicing medicine in the court of the Shah, in Isfahan, Persia. To rescue an old friend, Juremi, imprisoned in the Urals, Poncet travels to Russia where he engages in a duel of wits with Peter the Great. On their journey back the friends are captured and sold as slaves.
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Jean-Christophe Rufin is a founder of Doctors without Borders and author of the prize-winning first novel The Abyssinian. He lives in France.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Twenty years have passed since Jean-Baptiste Poncet's daring mission to the remote and exotic court of the King of Abyssinia. We find him now in Isfahan, capital of Persia, practicing medicine in the court of the Shah. In order to rescue his old friend Juremi, imprisoned in the Urals, Poncet travels in disguise to Russia, where he engages in a diplomatic duel of wits with Peter the Great. The friends, reunited, are captured by nomads and sold as slaves in Afghanistan. This is the beginning of Poncet's circuitous return to Isfahan, where his wife and daughter are trapped by a besieging army of the Afghan king, Mahmud. A luminous sequel to The Abyssinian, a headlong adventure set in the treacherous splendor of the Eastern empires. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780393323399
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