The Story of My Life

Fadhma Aith Mansour Amrouche

• Paperback | Engels | Travellers in the Wider Levant
• 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. Illegi... Lees meer

Letters Written During a Ten Year's Residence at the Court of Tripoli, 1783-1795 (1816)

Tully

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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 we... Lees meer

Barefoot Through Mauretania

Odette Du Puigaudeau

• Paperback | Engels | Travellers in the Wider Levant
• 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 cultu... Lees meer

The Man Who Wrote Aladdin

Hannā Diyāb

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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 Antoi... Lees meer

Curious and Amazing Adventures of Maria Ter Meetelen; Twelve Years a Slave, the (1731- 43)

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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 ... Lees meer

Travels in the Levant

Pierre Belon

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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 Ma... Lees meer

An Account of Japan, 1609

Roderigo De Vivero

• Hardcover | Engels | Travellers in the Wider Levant
• 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 h... Lees meer

Embassy to Tamerlane, 1403-1406

Ruy Gonzalez De Clavijo

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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 East... Lees meer