Curious and Amazing Adventures of Maria Ter Meetelen; Twelve Years a Slave, the (1731- 43)

"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 Meknès 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 spitefulness and 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."

Product details

• Assisted by: Karen Johnson (Translation), Karen M. D. Johnson (Translation), Caroline Stone (Translation)
• Publisher: Hardinge Simpole
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.09.2010
• EAN: 9781843822172
• ISBN: 978-1-84382-217-2
• No. of pages: 188
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 282 g
• Series: Travellers in the Wider Levant
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Travel > Travel guides > Africa