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The Anthologies: Quest Paperback – February 26, 2020

by Tahir Shah (Author)
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During a career of thirty years, Tahir Shah has published dozens of books on travel, exploration, topography, and research, as well as a large body of fiction.

Through this extraordinary series of Anthologies, selections from the corpus are arranged by theme, allowing the reader to follow certain threads that are of profound interest to Shah.

Spanning a number of distinct genres – in both fiction and non-fiction work – the collections incorporate a wealth of unpublished material. Prefaced by an original introduction, each Anthology provides a lens into a realm that has shaped Shah’s own outlook as a best-selling author.

Regarded as one of the most prolific and original writers working today, Tahir Shah has a world-wide following. Published in hundreds of editions, and in more than thirty languages, his books turn the world back to front and inside out. Seeking to make sense of the hidden underbelly, he illuminates facets of life most writers hardly even realize exist.

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  1. Part of series
    The Anthologies
  2. Print length
    200 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publication date
    February 26, 2020
  5. Dimensions
    4.72 x 0.5 x 7.48 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1912383497
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1912383498
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Secretum Mundi
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 26, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1912383497
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1912383498
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.72 x 0.5 x 7.48 inches
  • Part of series ‏ : ‎ The Anthologies
  • Customer Reviews:
    5.0 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

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Tahir Shah was born in London, and raised primarily at the family’s home, Langton House, in the English countryside – where founder of the Boy Scouts, Lord Baden Powell, was also brought up.

Along with his twin and elder sisters, Tahir was continually coaxed to regard the world around him through Oriental eyes. This included being exposed from early childhood to Eastern stories, and to the back-to-front humour of the wise fool, Nasrudin.

Having studied at a leading public school, Bryanston, Tahir took a degree in International Relations, his particular interest being in African dictatorships of the mid-1980s. His research in this area led him to travel alone through a wide number of failing African states, including Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Zaire.

After university, Tahir embarked on a plethora of widespread travels through the Indian subcontinent, Latin America, and Africa, drawing them together in his first travelogue, BEYOND THE DEVIL'S TEETH. In the years that followed, he published more than a dozen works of travel. These quests – for lost cities, treasure, Indian magic, and for the secrets of the so-called Birdmen of Peru – led to what is surely one of the most extraordinary bodies of travel work ever published.

In the early 2000s, with two small children, Tahir moved his young family from an apartment in London’s East End to a supposedly haunted mansion in the middle of a Casablanca shantytown. The tale of the adventure was published in his bestselling book, THE CALIPH'S HOUSE.

In recent years, Tahir Shah has released a cornucopia of work, embracing travel, fiction, and literary criticism. He has also made documentaries for National Geographic TV and the History Channel, and published hundreds of articles in leading magazines, newspapers, and journals. His oeuvre is regarded as exceptionally original and, as an author, he is considered as a champion of the new face of publishing.

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  • Paul Berglund
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating stories from a world traveler
    Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2020
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    Further selections from the opus of this prolific author
    and intrepid world explorer, "Quest" features various
    episodes from Shah's far-ranging travels, both from 'actual'
    expeditions, and from others taken solely in his vivid and
    highly original imagination. This is one of no less than fourteen
    volumes in the series, "The Anthologies"
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  • Peter Davies
    5.0 out of 5 stars A surprising new light on the author's work
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 14, 2020
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    I am a great fan of Tahir Shah's books. There are travel books, stories and fiction and reading them has taken me on many exotic journeys. When I saw this new series of anthologies announced, I thought I had probably read them in their original publications, but, finding his work always surprising, I bought this, The Anthologies: Quest. And I am very glad I did. By putting sections from his other works together according to a theme and adding an introduction, I saw them in a very different way, as though in a raking light from an unexpected direction they gained a coherence I hadn't seen before. So recommended whether you are familiar with his work or not.
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  • Ita
    5.0 out of 5 stars Quest Companion
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 15, 2020
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    This book is an invaluable companion for all intrepid questers and would-be questers. It dangles the lure of an escape from consumer society while dispelling illusions that a worthwhile quest is either easy or without danger.
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