Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar
by Ruete, Emily (born Salme, Princess of Oman and Zanzibar)
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About This Item
Zanzibar: The Gallery Publications, 1998. 1st edition. As New. octavo. hardback with dust jacket 210pp., b/w pls., Autobiography of the Princess Salme of Zanzibar and Oman, daughter of Sultan Said the Great. Originally published in German in 1886/88. ÔSet against a backdrop of political intrigue in the great age of European colonialism, this engrossing memoir offers a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century Arab and African life, not only in the palace, but in the city and plantations as well. The author provides a comparison between a woman's life in Muslim society and the conditions within the 19th-C European bourgeoisie.Õ
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- Bookseller
- Andrew Barnes Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 132028
- Title
- Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar
- Author
- Ruete, Emily (born Salme, Princess of Oman and Zanzibar)
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Gallery Publications
- Place of Publication
- Zanzibar
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- octavo
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