Samarkand
“I have been trying to expose, as faithfully as possible, what the Samarkand Manuscript reveals of Khayyam and of those he knew and some of the events he witnessed. It remains to be told just how this work, spared at the time of the Mongols, has come down to our time, and through what adventures I managed to gain possession of it, and to start with – through what stroke of luck I learnt of its existence.
I have already mentioned my name, Benjamin O. Lesage. In spite of its French sound, the ...heritage of a Huguenot forebear who emigrated in Louis XIV’s century, I am an American citizen and a native of Annapolis in Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay, a modest inlet of the Atlantic. My connection with France is not limited, however, to that distant forefather and my father applied himself to renewing the link. He had always had an obsession about his origins – even noting in his school book: ‘Was my genealogical tree felled in order to construct a get-away boat!’, and he set about learning French.MoreLess
I have already mentioned my name, Benjamin O. Lesage. In spite of its French sound, the ...heritage of a Huguenot forebear who emigrated in Louis XIV’s century, I am an American citizen and a native of Annapolis in Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay, a modest inlet of the Atlantic. My connection with France is not limited, however, to that distant forefather and my father applied himself to renewing the link. He had always had an obsession about his origins – even noting in his school book: ‘Was my genealogical tree felled in order to construct a get-away boat!’, and he set about learning French.MoreLess
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