Travellers in the Wider Levant – serie
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Travels in the Levant
The Observations of Pierre Belon of Le Mans on Many Singularities and Memorable Things Found in Greece, Turkey, Judaea, Egypt, Arabia and Other Foreign Countries (1553)
Av Pierre Belon
Häftad, 2012
394 kr
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In 1546, Pierre Belon - already a naturalist of some renown - travelled to Constantinople in the entourage of the French Ambassador to Suleiman the Magnificent. En route, he visited Venice, Ragusa, Corfu and Crete, and over the next two years travelled throughout the Ottoman domains, - to Egypt, …
Letters Written During a Ten Years' Residence at the Court of Tripoli, 1783-1795
Published from the Originals in the Possession of the Family of the Late Richard Tully, Esq., the British Consul, Comprising Authentic Memoirs and Anecdotes of the Reigning Bashaw, His Family and Other Persons of Distinction, Also an Account of the Domestic Manners of the Moors, Arabs and Turks
Av Miss Tully
Häftad, 2008
353 kr
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Miss Tully's Letters form a clear and eminently readable narrative of her years in Tripoli and the political situation there in the late 18th c, as well as a unique account of relationships within the harem of the ruler. She and her nieces had free access to the women of the family of the Bashaw …
Embassy to Tamerlane, 1403-1406
Häftad, 2009
333 kr
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In the year 1400 the princes of Europe sympathetically were much bestirred, fearing the imminent fall of Constantinople and the extinction of the Eastern Empire. The Ottoman Sultan Bazayid (otherwise Bajazet) was already in possession of almost the whole of what subsequently became Turkey in …
Barefoot Through Mauretania
Häftad, 2010
294 kr
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Odette du Puigaudeau is best known for her major ethnographic work, Arts et Coutumes des Maures, a detailed study, in words and drawings, of the cultural world of the nomads of Mauretania. The present work explains how she came to write it. Barefoot Through Mauretania is an account of her first …
Story of My Life
Av Fadhma Aith Mansour Amrouche
Häftad, 2009
303 kr
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This moving autobiography of a Berber woman from the village of Tizi-Hibel in the Kabilie Mountains of Algeria is unique on a number of levels. Illegitimate, Fadhma Amrouche would have been killed with her mother to preserve the honour of the family, but for the intervention of the French …
Curious and Amazing Adventures of Maria Ter Meetelen; Twelve Years a Slave, The (1731- 43)
Häftad, 2010
265 kr
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"From the age of thirteen I wandered abroad and at twenty-one I decided to take a little trip across France dressed as a man..." Maria ter Meetelen tells the story of her capture by Barbary pirates and twelve years as a slave at Meknes in Morocco. Straightforward and with no literary pretensions, …
Account of Japan, 1609
Inbunden, 2015
353 kr
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In 1608, Roderigo de Vivero, soldier and administrator, set out from Acapulco to take up his post as interim Governor of the Philippines. On the way home, his ship was wrecked off the coast of Japan and he lost everything. While in the Philippines, he had been in communication with the Shogun, …
Man Who Wrote Aladdin
The Life and Times of Hanna Diyab
Av Hanna Diyab
Häftad, 2020
309 kr
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The origins of 'Aladdin' continue to fascinate scholars and readers of the tales. The story is believed to have first been written in French, by Antoine Galland, having been told to him in Paris in 1709 by Hanna Diyab - the author of this travel memoir. Written some five decades after this …
