| Curious and Amazing Adventures of Maria Ter Meetelen; Twelve Years a Slave, the (1731- 43) Contributor(s): Stone, Caroline (Translator), Johnson, Karen (Translator), Stone, Caroline (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1843822172 ISBN-13: 9781843822172 Publisher: Hardinge Simpole Limited OUR PRICE: $22.79 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Africa - Morocco - Biography & Autobiography | Women - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 306.362 |
| Series: Travellers in the Wider Levant |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 6" W x 9" (0.62 lbs) 188 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - African - Cultural Region - North Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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 Mekn s 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." |
Contributor Bio(s): Stone, Caroline: - "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." |