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224 pages • first pub 1989 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780896599031
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Edition Pub Date: 01 June 1989
Description
A fascinating illustrated history of one of the strangest, and cruelest, cultural institutions ever devised. A worldwide best seller, translated into twenty-five languages.“I was born in a konak (old house), which once was the harem of a pasha,” w...
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224 pages • first pub 1989 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780896599031
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Edition Pub Date: 01 June 1989
Description
A fascinating illustrated history of one of the strangest, and cruelest, cultural institutions ever devised. A worldwide best seller, translated into twenty-five languages.“I was born in a konak (old house), which once was the harem of a pasha,” w...