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

"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 Meknes 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 spitefulnessand 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.

General

Imprint:	Hardinge Simpole Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Travellers in the Wider Levant
Release date:	September 2010
First published:	September 2010
Introduction by:	Caroline Stone
Translators:	Caroline Stone • Karen Johnson
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	188
ISBN-13:	978-1-84382-217-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Biography > General
LSN:	1-84382-217-2
Barcode:	9781843822172

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