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Total pages original book: 240
Includes a PDF summary of 23 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 15M50S (4.6 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: 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
Other categories, genre or collection: Cultural Studies, Classic Travel Writing, International Relations, Biography: General, Diaries, Letters & Journals, Travel Writing