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Nearly eighty years have passed since the appearance of Colonel Churchill's Life of Abd el Kader, the only English biography of the humble marabout who for fifteen years held the invading armies of a great European power at bay.
When we consider the character of the Emir Abd el Kader, it becomes evident that, in any age or country, so remarkable a man would be worthy of universal recognition.
It is much to be regretted that we have so little first-hand knowledge of the Emire during the bitter years of his struggle against France. The reader must therefore be indulgent if he finds that the hero seems too long to be obscured by the smoke of battle.
When we consider the character of the Emir Abd el Kader, it becomes evident that, in any age or country, so remarkable a man would be worthy of universal recognition.
It is much to be regretted that we have so little first-hand knowledge of the Emire during the bitter years of his struggle against France. The reader must therefore be indulgent if he finds that the hero seems too long to be obscured by the smoke of battle.
420 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1947
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Wilfrid Blunt
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Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt was an artist, art teacher, author and curator of the Watts Museum near Guildford.
Blunt received a scholarship to Marlborough College where he studied between 1914 and 1920.
After a year at Worcester College, Oxford, Blunt switched to the Atelier Moderne in Paris to become an artist. By the following year he was an engraving student at the Royal College of Art, London where he received an Associates degree in 1923.
Blunt joined Haileybury College, Hertfordshire, as its art instructor in 1923. He spent the year 1933 on leave training as a concert singer in Italy and Germany, but pursued singing only avocationally. Europe broadened his cultural outlook enough that returning to a provincial school was no longer rewarding. Blunt researched and published work on the architect William Wilkins, who had designed the buildings of Haileybury in 1806. The previous year, a family connection got him a position of second drawing master at Eton College.
In 1950, Blunt wrote his most acclaimed book The Art of Botanical Illustration, together with W.T. Stearn, for which he was awarded the Veitch Gold Medal from the Royal Horticultural Society. At Eton he encouraged italic handwriting, publishing the book Sweet Roman Hand on the subject in 1952. Blunt retired from Eton in 1959 and joined the Watts Gallery Museum in Compton, near Guildford, as a curator. When he retired from the Gallery in 1983 he was allowed to live in the curator's house until his death. His brothers were Christopher Evelyn Blunt, a noted numismatist, and Anthony Blunt, the eminent art historian (and spy).
source:Wilfrid Blunt
Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt was an artist, art teacher, author and curator of the Watts Museum near Guildford.
Blunt received a scholarship to Marlborough College where he studied between 1914 and 1920.
After a year at Worcester College, Oxford, Blunt switched to the Atelier Moderne in Paris to become an artist. By the following year he was an engraving student at the Royal College of Art, London where he received an Associates degree in 1923.
Blunt joined Haileybury College, Hertfordshire, as its art instructor in 1923. He spent the year 1933 on leave training as a concert singer in Italy and Germany, but pursued singing only avocationally. Europe broadened his cultural outlook enough that returning to a provincial school was no longer rewarding. Blunt researched and published work on the architect William Wilkins, who had designed the buildings of Haileybury in 1806. The previous year, a family connection got him a position of second drawing master at Eton College.
In 1950, Blunt wrote his most acclaimed book The Art of Botanical Illustration, together with W.T. Stearn, for which he was awarded the Veitch Gold Medal from the Royal Horticultural Society. At Eton he encouraged italic handwriting, publishing the book Sweet Roman Hand on the subject in 1952. Blunt retired from Eton in 1959 and joined the Watts Gallery Museum in Compton, near Guildford, as a curator. When he retired from the Gallery in 1983 he was allowed to live in the curator's house until his death. His brothers were Christopher Evelyn Blunt, a noted numismatist, and Anthony Blunt, the eminent art historian (and spy).
source:Wilfrid Blunt
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كتاب رائع يدور عن بطل من ابطال المسلمين في السلم و الحرب - عن البطل الذي ارهق الامبراطوريه الفرنسيه ( بسلاحها و عتادها و ذخيرتها العلميه ) 15 عاما كامله في الجزائر - و عن العرب و تشتتهم و فوضويتهم و خياتهم لقائدهم العظيم عشرات المرات
كتاب شيق يحكي عن هذه الفتره و في طياتها يشرح انماط الحياه و التفكير علي جانبي البحر المتوسط و حتي في جزء منه عن سوريا
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