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 | #226287 in Books |  2010-06-29 |  2010-06-29 | Format: Deckle Edge | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.55 x1.25 x6.50l,1.56 | File type: PDF | 400 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| A book waiting to be written|By Anne M Chappel|Christine Bird brings together various fascinating stories centering around Zanzibar and Oman. They say that truth is stranger than fiction. Here that is so. Its an easy historical read and she is well capable about weaving it all together.

I did find some errors which annoyed me - the editor should have picked them up.|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . Bird brilliantly tells of the 19th-century rise and fall of an Omani ruling family, its role in the enormous Indian Ocean slave trade and, unwittingly, through the Princess Salme, the Christianization and colonization of east Af

A story virtually unknown in the West, about two of the Middle East’s most remarkable figures—Oman’s Sultan Said and his rebellious daughter Princess Salme—comes to life in this narrative. From their capital on the sultry African island of Zanzibar, Sultan Said and his descendants were shadowed and all but shattered by the rise and fall of the nineteenth-century East African slave trade.

“As shrewd, liberal, and enlightened a prince a...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Sultan's Shadow: One Family's Rule at the Crossroads of East and West   |  Christiane Bird. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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