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

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

Buch | Softcover
188 Seiten
2010
Hardinge Simpole Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-84382-217-2 (ISBN)
21,15 inkl. MwSt
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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 tells the story of her capture by Barbary pirates and twelve years as a slave at Meknes in Morocco. Straightforward and with no literary pretensions, her voice comes down the centuries, robust, clear, personal and often surprising: "I do not complain at having been so far across the world, nor of my twelve years of slavery, nor of the suffering the Turks caused me, I can rise above that. But the spitefulnessand derision that my husband and I suffered from our fellow-countrymen cannot be forgotten, and is impossible for me to set it down here in writing."

Caroline Stone was educated at Cambridge and the University of Kyoto, Japan. She has lived and worked largely in Rome and Seville, with periods in Tunisia and Saudi Arabia and Cambridge. Interests include textiles - with a book and several catalogues on Chinese export embroideries published in Spanish - and travel accounts, particularly those written by people who don't normally write books - the poor, women, slaves... Work in progress includes a cookery book and family history written for Syrian Christian friends in Kerala and an edition of letters written by a family connection: the composer, and suffragette Ethel Smyth. Caroline Stone was educated at Cambridge and the University of Kyoto, Japan. She has lived and worked largely in Rome and Seville, with periods in Tunisia and Saudi Arabia and Cambridge. Interests include textiles - with a book and several catalogues on Chinese export embroideries published in Spanish - and travel accounts, particularly those written by people who don't normally write books - the poor, women, slaves... Work in progress includes a cookery book and family history written for Syrian Christian friends in Kerala and an edition of letters written by a family connection: the composer, and suffragette Ethel Smyth.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 24.9.2010
Reihe/Serie Travellers in the Wider Levant
Einführung Caroline Stone
Übersetzer Caroline Stone, Karen Johnson
Zusatzinfo black & white illustrations
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 284 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Reiseführer Afrika Marokko
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-84382-217-2 / 1843822172
ISBN-13 978-1-84382-217-2 / 9781843822172
Zustand Neuware
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