Harem - The World Behind the Veil
Author(s): Alev Lytle Croutier
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.
1989, First edition. A fine, unmarked copy in a fine, unclipped d/w which is now in a protective cover.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : 01 May 1989
- : {"length"=>["26"], "width"=>["18"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}
- : books
Special Fields
- : 224
- : very good
- : 305.4/2/0917671
- : Hardback with dustjacket
- : Alev Lytle Croutier