My Life's Travels and Adventures
Subtitle: An Eighteenth-Century Oculist in the Ottoman Empire and the European Hinterland
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781649590046
Subjects: Balkan peninsula, history
Description: "A memoir of the journeys of the eighteenth-century Polish oculist Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa through the Ottoman Empire, the Balkans, Poland-Lithuania, and Russia, detailing her experience as a stranger in distant lands, a Catholic Pole in a Muslim society, and a successful woman physician in a field reserved for men"--