Word: dragoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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while in the lee of the Great Pyramid, a bearded dragoman told the Irishman's fortune: "Here in your hand I see nine rivers that you must cross . . . When you have reached the last river, you will . . . find what you have been looking...
Nine Rivers from Jordan is the strange and tempestuous tale of how Irishman Denis Johnston, war correspondent and scholar, maverick and mystic, fulfilled the dragoman's prophecy in three years of bitter fighting that carried him and his BBC microphones from the Jordan to the Danube. Half-diary and half-confession, it is a story of one man's war, but with this difference: where others wrote of battles with an end in view-victory-Johnston was an outsider, an Irish will-o'-the-wisp who happened in on the holocaust not caring-at first...