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The Turkish Embassy Letters - Paperback Book - by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 9781853816796 - Little, Brown Book Group
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Cover TypeSoft Cover
AuthorLady Mary Wortley Montagu
Year1994
ISBN/ISSN9781853816796
LanguageEnglish
PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
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Dimensions: 13.2cm x 19.6cm x 1.6cm - The critical and biographical introduction tells of Lady Wortley Montagu's travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her lively letters offer insights into the paradoxical freedoms conferred on Muslim women by the veil, the value of experimental work by Turkish doctors on inoculation, and the beauty of Arab poetry and culture.
The ability to study another culture according to its own values and to see herself through the eyes of others makes Lady Mary one of the most fascinating of early travel writers and commentators