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

188 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

"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 Meknès 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 spitefulness and 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."

• Reihe: Travellers in the Wider Levant
• Themen: Lifestyle, Hobbys und Freizeit Reisen und Urlaub
• ISBN: 9781843822172
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.09.2010
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Hardinge Simpole