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Language: English
Published by Collins Pr, 2001
- Softcover
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A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.
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- Title
- The Simurgh and the Nightingale
- Author
- Derham, Roger
- Publisher
- Collins Pr
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1898256470
- ISBN 13
- 9781898256472
- Item weight
- 454 grams
Set against the backdrop of the seventeenth century Mediterranean this novel is based on the extraordinary true story of a remarkable Irish woman. This is a powerful novel of imagination and a brilliant piece of storytelling.
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About the Author
Roger Derham is a medical consultant in Galway. While researching women's hospitals in the early Ottoman Empire he found a letter in the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul. Written in the maghribi Arabic of North Africa it was signed by Catherine Cullen of Ireland.
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