Bird, Christiane. <br/><br/>
The Sultan's shadow :  one family's rule at the crossroads of East and West / 
Christiane Bird. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Random House,  c2010. 
 - xxii, 374 p. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-364) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780345469403 (alk. paper) 0345469402 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009042845 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Saʻīd bin Sulṭān, Sultan of Zanzibar,  1791-1856. <br/>Ruete, Emilie, 1844-1924. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Princesses--Oman--Biography.<br/>Slave trade--History--Arab countries--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Oman--Kings and rulers--Biography.<br/>Oman--Relations--Africa, East.<br/>Africa, East--Relations--Oman.<br/>Oman--Relations--Germany.<br/>Germany--Relations--Oman.<br/>Zanzibar--History--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS247.O66  / B57 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>953.53  B