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Life on the Golden Horn
Life on the Golden Horn | Mary Wortley Montagu
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Travelling through the wartorn Balkans with her husband on what proved to be a wholly useless diplomatic mission to Constantinople, Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) left a vivid, informative, clever account of her adventures in the mysterious, sophisticated culture of Ottoman palaces, bathing places and courts which - even as her husband's career was falling apart - she could not have enjoyed more. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
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Caroline2
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Oh I loved this!! Mary was wife to the British Ambassador and sent lots of letters home as she travelled across Europe in 1718. The letters reveal so much about the lives of women at the time, it‘s all very gossipy but fascinating! Thank you so much Helen @squirrelbrain for sending this to me! 😀 #jbuk

squirrelbrain I‘m so glad you enjoyed it! I found her view of ‘veiled‘ women fascinating - the polar opposite of many in society feel today I think? 5y
Tamra Sounds interesting! 5y
Caroline2 @squirrelbrain true but I‘d like to see what these ‘Turkish veils‘ looked like as she said it made women more beautiful. Which I took to mean you could still see the woman‘s face unlike the modern burka. It was a fascinating read!! 5y
kspenmoll Sounds fascinating! 5y
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Caroline2
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How lovely to come home from holiday to book mail! 😍 thank you so much Helen @squirrelbrain for this lovely book! It sounds very interesting and it‘s so pretty!! I love it! This is going to be my morning read with a coffee! ☕️ 😁

TrishB Lovely 💕 I have a half written letter to you......I will get back to you probably once exams and 18 birthday out of the way so I can write a proper update!! 5y
Caroline2 @TrishB Ahh, no worries Trish! There‘s no rush! I know how stressful exams are, they are all consuming!! So just get through them then celebrate!!! 🥂 🥳 5y
squirrelbrain Yay! Glad it arrived Ok and hope you enjoy... hope you had fab hols too! 😘 5y
TrishB Can‘t wait 🎉🎉 5y
Caroline2 @squirrelbrain it was lovely thanks, although calling it a holiday with kids is an oxymoron!!! 😆 I‘m knackered!! 😴 5y
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#goldenslumbers

#beatlemaynia

I haven‘t read this yet but it sounds fascinating.... Mary Wortley Montagu‘s journey through Europe to Constantinople in the early 1700s, investigating the hidden lives of women.

Weaponxgirl Ohhhh stacked! 5y
rockpools Exactly what @Weaponxgirl said! 5y
Caroline2 Ohhh that does sound good! 😯 stacked!!! 👍🏻 5y
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Eggs 🤗👏🏻🌟💗 5y
Tamra Does sound so interesting! 5y
squirrelbrain @Weaponxgirl @RachelO @Caroline2 @Tamra - now I‘m going to have to read it to see if it‘s as good as it sounds! I‘ll let you all know.... It was another charity shop find; the full set is 20 books but I only got 10.... 5y
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