Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar
by Emilie Ruete (9780486471211)

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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