Henry de Monfreid

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Henry de Monfreid (born November 14, 1879 in La Franqui, Leucate, France, December 13, 1974) is a French adventurer and writer.

He was the son of a painter and as a child he knew Paul Gauguin. He went in the footsteps of Rimbaud and became famous thanks to his journeys in the Red Sea and off the Horn of Africa, between Tanzania, Aden, Pl. Arab and Suez (1912-40). Among other things he smuggled weapons and drugs, dived in search of pearls and tricks. He went to Islam. He became a wealthy man: he had a house in Djibouti and a big boat called "Altair". In the 1930s, Joseph Kessel persuaded him to describe his adventures and created bestsellers. During the war, he was deported to Kenya by the British because it was usually detrimental to their interests.

After the war he lived in a small village in the provincial town of Ingrandes in France. For 30 years he has written about 70 books. His daughter described their lives in memoirs. His best known books are The Mysteries of the Red Sea (1931) and Haszysz (1933). In the interwar years, three lesser known books were published in Poland. It seems that there are no Polish translations of these two basic tales.

In 1937, the feature film "The Mysteries of the Red Sea" was created, and in the years 1968-75 a 26-episode series appeared in the 1980s.

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