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This book covers an area that I know practically nothing about, 19th century Oman/Zanzibar. The information was interesting and told through the framework of the life of Sultan Said and his daughter Princess Salme. It is also the story of Islam and of EAst African slavery.
It is too bad that every time we got a glimpse of Salme, Bird would slip away from her life to examine some aspect of the culture that she lived in. It did introduce the reader to an enormous amount of material in a readable w ...more
It is too bad that every time we got a glimpse of Salme, Bird would slip away from her life to examine some aspect of the culture that she lived in. It did introduce the reader to an enormous amount of material in a readable w ...more
