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Click to enlargeMemoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar

Emily Ruete, Sayyida Prin. of Zanzibar
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Format: Book
ISBN: 0486471217
Page Count: 288
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
This autobiography offers a rare inside look at the society surrounding a sultan's palace. Its author, a real-life princess in exile, recalls her vanished world of harems, slave trading, and court intrigues. The Midwest Book Review praised this book as "an engrossing memoir, offering a vivid portrait of 19th-century Arab and African life."
Reprint of the Doubleday, New York, 1907 edition.

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