Ferdynand Goetel

Ferdynand Goetel (born May 15, 1890, Sucha Beskidzka, Austria-Hungary [now in Poland]—died November 24, 1960, London, England) was a Polish novelist and essayist noted primarily for his memoirs and his novels about exotic countries. Goetel started writing after World War I, when he returned to Poland from Russian Turkestan. As a citizen of the Austrian-ruled part of Poland, he had been interned there as an Austrian subject. In 1924 he published Przez płonący Wschód (“Across...