the book was produced by Douglas Craven Phillott. The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan 1947 edition, The Heritage Press, imprint of The George Macy Companies, illustrated by Honore Guilbeau, preface by Sir Walter Scott Death Morier died suddenly in Brighton on 19 March 1849, from "cerebral congestion". His wife died in London in 1858. Legacy The Adventures of Hajji Baba is an American movie, based on the Hajji Baba novels, which was produced in 1954. Operation Hajji Baba, a humanitarian airlift operation conducted in 1952 by the US Air Force, took its name from the Hajji Baba novels. Morier is credited with introducing into English the word "bosh", meaning absurd or foolish talk. It derives from the Turkish word boş meaning "empty". In 1842, botanist Boiss. published Moriera a genus of flowering plants from Central Asia, belonging to the family Brassicaceae in his honour. Notes References Johnston, Henry McKenzie. Ottoman and Iranian (Persian) Odysseys. I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 1998. Boyne, Walter J. "The Pilgrim Airlift". Air Force Magazine, March 2007. External links The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan set forth in Eighty Chapters, full text The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, excerpt at Project Gutenberg Ayesha, Maid of Kars at Internet Archive 1780 births 1849 deaths British diplomats 19th-century British novelists Smyrniote Levantines Fellows of the Royal Society British expatriates in Iran British male novelists James Justinian British expatriates in the Ottoman Empire 19th-century British male writers