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Harem: The World Behind the Veil
Alev Lytle Croutier
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| #1617514 in Books | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd | 1989-05 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.50 x7.50 x1.25l,2.40 | File type: PDF | 224 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Illustrious Text combined with Brilliant Writing.|By davidmarks|Just when I thought books were lost to an e-book world, stark and dreary, matter of fact and limited, I find comfort, near spirituality, in a find from a great writer, Alev Croutier. Harem; The World Behind The Veil, is an extraordinary accomplishment, beautifully written, dynamically illustrated with some of the w|From Publishers Weekly|For almost 400 years, until 1909, the Grand Harem in Istanbul's Topkapi Palace was home to as many as 2000 odalisques bought at slave markets for a price lower than the going rate for a good horse. The Turkish author relates the day-to-day
Drawing on a host of intimate first-hand accounts and memoirs, Harem explores life in the world's harems, from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century, focusing on the fabled and ever-mysterious Seraglio of Topkapi Palace as a paradigm for all. 125 illustrations, 50 in full color.
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