Dreaming of East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient.
by Hodgson, Barbara
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1740664477
- ISBN 13
- 9781740664479
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Melbourne: Hardie Grant, 2006. Australian ed.. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, card cover (with flaps), sepia (brown tinted) text-photos, colour & black & white drawings, minor edgewear. 180 pp. Australian edition. Explores the enduring fascination that the area now known as the Middle East has exerted on women of the West and the freedom that it offered. Illustrated with paintings, engravings, and photos of these intrepid travellers and the exotic places they visited, this provocative book shows how all these women, by travelling outside their own societies, pushed the limits and made their world and ours a richer place. SALE PRICE. (1 of 2 available copies.).
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25172
- Title
- Dreaming of East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient.
- Author
- Hodgson, Barbara
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Australian ed.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1740664477
- ISBN 13
- 9781740664479
- Publisher
- Hardie Grant
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- travel, families, gender, women travellers, history, middle east
- Bookseller catalogs
- MIDDLE EAST;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...