01511cam a2200277 a 4500 2833 FISKH 20240116150102.0 000920s2001 nyu 000 1 eng 00048953 0393049884 DLC DLC DLC eng fre PQ2678.U357 S2813 2001 843/.914 21 Rufin, Jean-Christophe, 1952- Sauver Isfahan. English The siege of Isfahan / Jean-Christophe Rufin ; translated from the French by Willard Wood. New York : W.W. Norton, c2001. 373 pages : 24 cm. Twenty years have passed since Jean-Baptiste Poncet's daring mission to the remote and exotic court of the King of Abyssinia. We find him now in Isfahan, capital of Persia, practicing medicine in the court of the Shah. In order to rescue his old friend Juremi, imprisoned in the Urals, Poncet travels in disguise to Russia, where he engages in a diplomatic duel of wits with Peter the Great. The friends, reunited, are captured by nomads and sold as slaves in Afghanistan. This is the beginning of Poncet's circuitous return to Isfahan, where his wife and daughter are trapped by a besieging army of the Afghan king, Mahmud. Wood, Willard. 7 cbc orignew 1 ocip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 0 2833 2833 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC 001 001 FIC 2024-01-16 0 RUF 843.914 PQ2678.U357 2024-0039 2024-01-16 15:00:59 2024-01-16 BK