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  • Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay, Bimbashi Baruk of Egypt, Morning Star, The Egyptian Fire-Eater, The Wave: An Egyptian Aftermath, All for Love: The World Well Lost A Tragedy, Egyptian Maid: Romance of the Water-Lily

    Experience has, especially of late years, amply refuted the barbarous error, which attributes to Nature a niggardliness towards the minds of that sex to which she has been most prodigal of personal gifts; the highest walks of science and literature in this country have been graced by female authors, and, perhaps, the purity and refinement which pervade our works of imagination, compared with those ... Read more

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  • Memoirs of an Arabian Princess

    NINE years ago I conceived the idea of writing down some facts for the information of my children, who at that time knew nothing about my origin except that I was Arabian and had come from Zanzibar. Exhausted in body and in mind, I did not then expect to live until they were grown up, did not think I should ever relate to them verbally the happenings of my youth and the course of my fate. Hence I ... Read more

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  • Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar

    by Emily Ruete ...
    Emily Ruete was born in Zanzibar (in modern day Tanzania) as Sayyida Salme, Princess of Zanzibar and Oman. She was the youngest of the 36 children of Sayyid Said bin Sultan Al-Busaid, Sultan of Zanzibar and Oman. Her extraordinary life story is the subject of Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar.This new digital edition of Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar includes an image ... Read more

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  • Morocco That Was

    by Walter Harris ...
    Until 1912 Morocco had never suffered foreign domination, and its mountainous interior was as closed to foreigners as Tibet. Walter Harris was the exception. He lived in the country for more than thirty-five years, and as The Times correspondant he observed every aspect of its life. He describes the unfettered Sultanate in all its dark, melodramatic splendour. Harris was an intimate of at least ... Read more

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  • Travels into Bokhara

    A Voyage up the Indus to Lahore and a Journey to Cabool, Tartary & Persia

    At the age of only twenty six, Alexander Burnes proved himself to be one of the most effective intelligence agents of his time. Making two dangerous journeys beyond the frontiers of the Indian Empire, he reported back via the East India Company to Downing Street on the geography and politics of the kingdoms that lay to the northwest as far as fabled Bokhara. He travelled simply, disguised as a ... Read more

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  • Memoirs of An Arabian Princess

    An Autobiography

    by Emily Ruete ...
    Memoirs of An Arabian Princess: An Autobiography is the memoirs of Emily Ruete (born Sayyida Salme) , princess of Zanzibar and Oman. It is believed to be the first autobiography of an Arab woman. ... Read more

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  • Travels into Bokhara

    A Voyage up the Indus to Lahore and a Journey to Cabool, Tartary & Persia.

    Alexander Burnes was a British adventurer and employee of the East India Company during the Great Game era of the 19th Century. He spoke Hindi and Persian and was nicknamed 'Bokhara Burnes' for his role in establishing contact with and exploring Bokhara, which made him famous. He was rumored to be a spy during the first Afghan War and was knighted by Queen Victoria for his clandestine services ... Read more

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  • Travels in Egypt and Nubia: Belzoni (Expanded, Annotated)

    A GIANT AMONG ADVENTURERS AND EXPLORERSAmong the noted explorers and adventurers of the great age of discovery, few can compare with the Great Belzoni.No study of the modern exploration of ancient Egypt is complete without his extraordinary work. Once a circus strongman, trained as an engineer, he spent many years on the Nile in Egypt and Nubia studying the ancient ruins and shipping antiquities ... Read more

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  • Travels Into Bokhara

    A Voyage up the Indus to Lahore and a Journey to Cabool, Tartary & Persia

    ‘The Great Game’ (also referred to as the Tournament of Shadows) is a term used to describe the political and diplomatic confrontation that existed during most of the 19th Century between the British Empire and the Russian Empire centered around Afghanistan and its surrounding regions. The classic Great Game period is generally regarded as running approximately from the Russo-Persian Treaty of ... Read more

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  • Thirty Years in the Harem:

    or, the Autobiography of Melek-Hanum, Wife of H. H. Kibrizli-Mehemet Pasha. Volume 1.

    Series series Elibron Classics
    Elibron Classics Edition. 2 Volumes Sold Separately.Replica of 1872 edition by A. Asher & Co., Berlin.4 editions published between 1876 and 2005 in English and Swedish and held by 46 libraries worldwide“Melek Hanum (Hanim) [1814-1873] met Kibrisli Mehement (Mehmed) Pasha, in Paris, and they were married upon returning to Istanbul. She accompanied him to various postings in Palestine and Serbia, ... Read more

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  • Travels into Bokhara

    ‘The Great Game’ (also referred to as the Tournament of Shadows) is a term used to describe the political and diplomatic confrontation that existed during most of the 19th Century between the British Empire and the Russian Empire centered around Afghanistan and its surrounding regions. The classic Great Game period is generally regarded as running approximately from the Russo-Persian Treaty of ... Read more

    $8.44 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thirty Years in the Harem: or, the Autobiography of Melek-Hanum, Wife of H. H. Kibrizli-Mehemet Pasha.

    Volume 2.

    Series series Elibron Classics
    Elibron Classics Edition. 2 Volumes sold separately.Replica of 1872 edition by A. Asher & Co., Berlin.4 editions published between 1876 and 2005 in English and Swedish and held by 46 libraries worldwide“Melek Hanum (Hanim) [1814-1873] met Kibrisli Mehement (Mehmed) Pasha, in Paris, and they were married upon returning to Istanbul. She accompanied him to various postings in Palestine and Serbia, ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD