The Turkish Embassy Letters by Mary Wortley Montagu

The Turkish Embassy Letters

Mary Wortley Montagu

256 pages first pub 1971 (editions)

nonfiction history travel informative slow-paced
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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 Musl...

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