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The ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh : a woman in world history / Linda Colley.

By: Colley, Linda.
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Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c2007Edition: 1st American ed.Description: xxxii, 363 p. : ill. (some col.), geneal. tables, maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780375421532; 037542153X.Subject(s): Follett Library Resources Marsh, Elizabeth | 1735-1785. -- Women travelers | Biography | sears -- England | Biography. -- Africa | Description and travel. -- Asia | Description and travel. Marsh, Elizabeth | sears -- Women travelers | sears -- England | sears -- Africa | sears -- Asia | searsDDC classification: 910.92 | B
Contents:
month tour of India, her marriage to a British merchant, their bankruptcies, and other topicsOut of the Caribbean -- Taken to Africa, encountering Islam -- Trading from London, looking to America -- Writing and migrating -- An Asiatic progress -
Summary: Examines the life of eighteenth-century English adventurer Elizabeth Marsh and how it was shaped by world events such as the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution, discussing her capture by pirates, Sultan Sidi Muhammad's attempt to make her a part of his harem, her eighteen-
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Examines the life of eighteenth-century English adventurer Elizabeth Marsh and how it was shaped by world events such as the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution, discussing her capture by pirates, Sultan Sidi Muhammad's attempt to make her a part of his harem, her eighteen-

month tour of India, her marriage to a British merchant, their bankruptcies, and other topicsOut of the Caribbean -- Taken to Africa, encountering Islam -- Trading from London, looking to America -- Writing and migrating -- An Asiatic progress -

- World War and family revolutions -- Ending and continuing -- Family trees. Adult

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