| Turkish Harems & Circassian Homes Contributor(s): Harvey, Annie Jane (Author) |
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ISBN: 1517784182 ISBN-13: 9781517784188 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $16.93 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1871 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Middle East - Turkey - History | Middle East - General |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 8" W x 10" (0.85 lbs) 190 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It was on a sunny summer morning that an English schooner yacht, that had been tossing about all night on the stormy waves of the Sea of Marmora, rounded the point opposite Scutari, and, gracefully spreading her wings like a white bird, came rapidly on under the influence of the fresh morning breeze, and cast anchor at the entrance of the Golden Horn. The rattle of the chain had scarcely ceased when up came all the poor sea-sick folk from below, for yachting people can be sea-sick sometimes, whatever may be the popular belief to the contrary. Never, perhaps, was a greater Babel of tongues heard on board any little vessel. The owner of the yacht, his wife and sister, were English; but there was an Italian governess, a French maid, a German bonne, a Neapolitan captain, a Maltese mate, two children speaking indifferently well most of these languages, and a crew comprising every nation bordering the Mediterranean. |