The story of my struggles: the memoirs of Arminius Vambéry, Volume 1

From the little foretaste which my theoretical studies had given me of the immense depths of delight contained in Oriental literature, it had become quite clear to me that in or...

As I have published several books about this my second journey to the East, and as these, being translated into various languages, have become public property over the civilised...

My visit to my home was very pleasant; instead of the cold surroundings I had been used to among strangers, I now met on all sides loving glances from my brothers and sisters, a...

"Docendo discimus" ("by teaching we learn") says the Latin proverb, and according to this I must have had the very best opportunities for acquiring those scientific accomplishme...

I had now become thoroughly accustomed to my _rôle_ of mendicant friar, and the severe physical and mental exertions I had undergone should have prepared and fitted me for a yet...

"_Cogito ergo sum!_" Yes, I am here, but the date of my birth I cannot positively state, as I have no means of ascertaining it. I had the problematic good fortune to be born of...

Authors of Autobiographies are much exposed to fall into self-glorification. If I nevertheless have undertaken to write the following pages, I have done so because of the unexpe...