A Person from England
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A Person from England

Fitzroy Maclean’s 1958 book A Person From England transports readers to the mythical towns of Turkestan, including Merv, Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarkand. Western visitors have long been enthralled with these places, and Maclean brings back memories of spies and explorers who formerly ventured inside the Khanates of Turkestan. His eloquent narrative portrays a way of life that is vanishing in this atmospherically beautiful area.

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Fitzroy Maclean

Fitzroy Maclean was a Scottish diplomat, soldier, politician, and travel writer whose firsthand experience of the Soviet Union and wartime Yugoslavia informed a broader interest in contested regions. A Person from England, first published by Jonathan Cape in 1958, turns from Maclean’s own journeys to…

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