The Turkish Embassy Letters
Montagu Wortley Mary Lady, Heffernan Teresa, O'Quinn Daniel
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Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2013
Edition: First Edition
Description: 321 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.
Publishers Description: In 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagus husband Edward Montagu was appointed British ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire. Montagu accompanied her husband to Turkey and wrote an extraordinary series of letters that recorded her experiences as a traveller and her impressions of Ottoman culture and society. This Broadview edition includes a broad selection of related historical documents on Turkey, women in the Arab world, Islam, and "Oriental" tales written in Europe.
ISBN: 9781554810420
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