Main entry:

Bird, Christiane.

Title & Author:

The Sultan's shadow : one family's rule at the crossroads of East and West / Christiane Bird.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Random House, ©2010.

Description:

xxii, 374 pages : map ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-364) and index.
pt. 1: Oman. Beginnings -- Muscat -- Slavery -- The Portuguese invasion -- The Al Busaids come to power -- War with the Wahhabis -- Seyyid Said in Muscat -- pt. 2: Zanzibar. A princess is born -- Clove fever -- The move to town -- On the streets -- A day in the life -- Gatherings -- The slave trade -- Americans in Zanzibar -- The Swahili -- Seyyid Said's last journey -- The explorers -- Rebellion -- Elopement -- pt. 3: Germany and Africa. Hamburg -- Alone -- Changes -- Tippu Tip -- Dr. Livingstone -- Stanley meets Tippu Tip -- Seyyid Barghash -- Endings.
Library copy 1: Dust jacket.
Library copy 2: former shelfmark: 93(678).

Summary:

Oman's Sultan Said and his rebellious daughter Princess Salme--comes to life in this compelling narrative. Sultan Said and his descendants were shadowed and all but shattered by the rise and fall of East Africa's nineteenth-century slave trade.

ISBN:

9780345469403 (alk. paper)
0345469402 (alk. paper)
(ebk.)
9780679603764
(ebk.)
067960376X

Subject:

Saʻīd bin Sulṭān, Sultan of Zanzibar, 1791-1856.
Ruete, Emilie, 1844-1924.
bin Sultan, Said, 1791-1856.
Ruete, Emily, 1844-1924.
Princesses Oman Biography.
Slave trade Arab countries History 19th century.
Princesses Oman Biographies.
Esclaves Commerce États arabes Histoire 19e siècle.
Oman.
Tanzania.
Zanzibar.
Germany.
social history.
family.
slave trade.
biographies (form)
International relations
Kings and rulers
Princesses
Slave trade
Oman Kings and rulers Biography.
Oman Relations Africa, East.
Africa, East Relations Oman.
Oman Relations Germany.
Germany Relations Oman.
Zanzibar History 19th century.
Afrique orientale anglophone Relations Oman.
Zanzibar Histoire 19e siècle.
Africa, East
Arab countries
Tanzania Zanzibar

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
collective biographies.
Biographies
History

Added entries:

copy 1: African Architecture Matters
copy 1: Kiran Mukerji Collection
copy 2: Antoni Folkers and Belinda van Buiten Library, donor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main kiran mukerji 296203
Call No.: BIB 242628
Copy: 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 316431
Call No.: 316431
Copy: 2
Status: Available