The critical and biographical introduction tells of Lady Wortley Montagu's travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her lively letters offer insights into the paradoxical freedoms conferred on Muslim women by the veil, the value of experimental work by Turkish doctors on inoculation, and the beauty of Arab poetry and culture.

The 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 of early travel writers and commentators

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Format: Trade Paperback
Author: Wortley Montagu, Lady Mary
ISBN: 9781853816796
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 7.60 x 0.60
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Year: 1994

The Turkish Embassy Letters

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