Harem The World Behind The Veil

Author: Alev Lytle Croutier

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Price : $20.00 AUD
ISBN : 9780747504979
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Publication date : 01 May 1989
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Author : Alev Lytle Croutier
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Dewey classification : 305.4/2/0917671
Reading Level : very good
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Pages : 224
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9780747504979

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1989, First edition. A fine, unmarked copy in a fine, unclipped d/w which is now in a protective cover.

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This book explores harems all over the world, focusing on the celebrated Seraglio of Turkey's Topkapi Palace as a paradigm for all. We are shown the slave market and boudoirs of sultans, the daily routines of the odalisques - their baths, clothes and appetites - and the peculiar lives of the eunuchs who guarded and controlled them; all this alongside the splendour and depravity of the sultans, masters of the harem, whose rule was absolute.

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