by Ilija Trojanow · Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783423135818
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«Der Weltensammler» is the historical adventure novel by Ilija Trojanow, published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (523 pages, in German).
The novel follows British colonial officer Richard Francis Burton, who in the nineteenth century learns local languages, immerses himself in foreign religions and travels incognito through India, Arabia and East Africa; he reaches Mecca disguised as a pilgrim and searches for the sources of the Nile.
The novel was originally published in 2006 and received the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the fiction category.
For readers of historical fiction and travel literature interested in nineteenth-century colonial expansion and the encounter between cultures.
Ilija Trojanow, also transliterated as Ilya Troyanov, is a Bulgarian-German writer, translator and publisher.
