"From the age of thirteen I wandered abroad and at twenty-one I decided to take a little trip across France dressed as a man..." Maria ter Meetelen tells the story of her capture by Barbary pirates and twelve years as a slave at Meknes in Morocco. Straightforward and with no literary pretensions, her voice comes down the centuries, robust, clear, personal and often surprising: "I do not complain at having been so far across the world, nor of my twelve years of slavery, nor of the suffering the Turks caused me, I can rise above that. But the spitefulnessand derision that my husband and I suffered from our fellow-countrymen cannot be forgotten, and is impossible for me to set it down here in writing."
- ISBN:
- 9781843822172
- 9781843822172
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Category:
- Social & cultural history
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
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24-09-2010
- Publisher:
- Zeticula Ltd
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 188
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x10mm
- Weight:
- 0.28kg
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