LIBROS DEL AUTOR: douglas scott brookes

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  • Harem Ghosts
    Ali Ziyrek / Douglas Scott Brookes
    In vivid and engaging style, Douglas Brookes uses the royal tomb of Sultan Mahmud II as a window onto the past, exploring the insights the tomb reveals about Ottoman culture in its splendid last decades. Woven into the tale are the life stories of the Turkish royals and harem concubines interred in the mausoleum and of the illustrious Ottomans buried in the tomb’s garden: not j...
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    27,29 €

  • The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher
    Douglas Scott Brookes
    In the Western imagination, the Middle Eastern harem was a place of sex, debauchery, slavery, miscegenation, power, riches, and sheer abandon. But for the women and children who actually inhabited this realm of the imperial palace, the reality was vastly different. In this collection of translated memoirs, three women who lived in the Ottoman imperial harem in Istanbul between ...
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    44,10 €