TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bird,Christiane
TI  - The Sultan's shadow: one family's rule at the crossroads of East and West 
SN  - 9780345469403 (alk. paper)
AV  - DS247.O66 B57 2010
U1  - 953.53B 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Saʻīd bin Sulṭān,
KW  - Ruete, Emilie,
KW  - Princesses
KW  - Oman
KW  - Biography
KW  - Slave trade
KW  - Arab countries
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - Relations
KW  - Africa, East
KW  - Germany
KW  - Zanzibar
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [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
N2  - 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
ER  -