Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0023294, Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:31:16 +0000

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SIGHTING: Allen and Sachtleben from The Gift, new photos
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David Herlihy, the foremost bicycle history expert, published a new note on Thomas Gaskell Allen, Jr. and William Lewis Sachtleben, the two "Gobi Desert cyclists" that appear in "The Gift", with some previously unpublished photographs:

http://magazine.wustl.edu/2012/august/Pages/AlumniAllenandSachtleben.aspx



For more information, please see also:

Allen TG Jr, and Sachtleben WL, Across Asia on a Bicycle: The Journey of Two American Students from Constantinople to Peking<http://www.amazon.com/Across-Asia-Bicycle-American-Constantinople/dp/1587420201/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346257676&sr=8-1&keywords=allen+sachtleben>. (2003 reprint available on Amazon).
Fet V., 2007. An additional source for a Central Asian episode in The Gift. The Nabokovian, 57: 31-37.
Zimmer, DE & Hartmann S: The Amazing Music of Truth: Nabokov's Sources for Godunov's Central Asian Travels in The Gift. Nabokov Studies, 7, 2002/2003: 33-74
Zimmer, DE. 2006. Nabokov reist im Traum in das Innere Asiens.
Fet V., Herlihy D. 2011. A Humber source of Humbert: more on Nabokov's bicycles. The Nabokovian, 66: 15-21.



Victor Fet


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