Blood and Oil in the Orient: My childhood in Baku and my hair-raising escape through the Caucasus by Essad Bey, Tom Reiss

Blood and Oil in the Orient: My childhood in Baku and my hair-raising escape through the Caucasus

Essad Bey, Tom Reiss

268 pages • first pub 1929 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous funny reflective medium-paced
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An Autobiography like Something Out of the Arabian Nights In this lively and witty autobiography, Essad Bey, a.k.a. Lev Nussimbaum, tells us the story of his childhood in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, and of his flight from the Russian Revoluti...

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