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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book focuses on the life and times of the 19th-century traveler and observer M.M. D'Aubignan, a French physician and adventurer whose extensive travels in the Middle East, Central Asia, and India provide a unique perspective on these regions at a time of significant political and cultural transformation. Part of a growing body of travel writing produced by Westerners encountering these regions in this period, D'Aubignan's accounts were in fact ghostwritten by a contemporary, and the book's author delves into this fascinating literary device both to provide a fascinating insight into the writing itself, and the nature of truth and identity in travel writing and exoticism of the time. Also examined is the impact of these encounters on the traveler himself, as well as the fate of the countries visited, which continue to struggle with the legacy of colonialism, all of which makes the insights in this book equally significant and timely today. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.