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Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Dec 1969
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Retail Price: $10.95
Pages: 288
Emily Ruete was born in 1840 as Princess Sayyida of Zanzibar. Set against a backdrop of political intrigue in the great age of European colonialism, this memoir offers a portrait of 19th-century Arab and African life, not only in the palace, but in the city and plantations as well.