Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar

by EmilyRuete (Author)

• Used

  Illustrated
  2009

  $7.58

• New

  Paperback
  1995

  $34.71

  Emily Ruete was born in 1840 as Princess Sayyida of Zanzibar. Set against a backdrop of political intrigue in the great age of European colonialism, this memoir offers a portrait of 19th-century Arab and African life, not only in the palace, but in the city and plantations as well.