num_pages: 190
description: 
  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was described by a contemporary as "one of the most extraordinary shining characters in the world." Her letters, collected here, tell of her travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her liveliness makes them delightfully readable, and her singular intelligence provides us with insights that were exceptional for their time. Her 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 and accomplished of early travel writers.

language: English
title: Turkish Embassy Letters
titlecomplete: Turkish Embassy Letters
genres: Classics, History, 18th Century, Travel, Read For School, School, Biography, Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 864
places: Turkey, Ottoman Empire
publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr