My Last Mini-Essay

Hungarian count Lazlo Almasy:
Lazlo Almasy had one brother named Janos. Of the two, Lazlo was the least charismatic but had the most diverse life experience. Lazlo started to become known when he caught attention of Egypt’s great desert explorer, Prince Hussein Kamal al-Din. Lazlo became an engineer with a former Austro-Hungarian auto firm, but this was not why he was famous. He is better known for being an explorer, geographer, and an adventurous pilot. He and his brother were quite the hunters, as they would hunt on their own property. Lazlo then organized African safaris, which were like hunting expeditions. Later, Lazlo worked for the British-run Egyptian Desert Survey Department. In his spare time he would guide a de Havilland Gypsy Moth over Egypt’s uncharted territories. People who knew both him and his father thought that Lazlo took after his father a great deal. While he explored the desert, Lazlo came across a large piece of granite, which was about the size of Switzerland. Within this discovery he also found a habitat of prehistoric humans which had lived there long before the African Sahara had dried up. Other discoveries by Lazlo were his findings on cave drawings. Lazlo’s life is written about in several books such as :The English Patient”, “The Key to Rebecca”, and others. Lazlo then joined the pro-German Hungarian air force when WWII broke out. After the war, Lazlo was indicted by a Hungarian court of law for having collaborated with Rommel and for purposely writing a German book on propaganda. These charges were dropped though, due to Gyula Germanus. Lazlo died on March 22, 1951 in Salzburg due to illness.