In the Palaces of the Sultan (Replica Books)
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
Published: September 9, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9781593333034
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; Sociology, Social Studies; Women's studies; Middle East - General; Social Science; Sociology; Middle East; Islamic Studies; Middle East - Turkey; History-Middle East - Turkey; Social Science-Islamic Studies; Women's Studies - General; History
First sentence: A TOWERING mass of wall flanked by grey bastions, a stretch of beach on whose amber sands lay a dozen or more gaily painted caiques, and a veiled shape pink from head covering to skirt edge, shuffling waterwards in canary-coloured slippers, - such were the signs, pregnant in meaning, that announced to the passengers of the Orient express they had come to their long journey's end.