The Simurgh and the Nightingale,Used
The Simurgh and the Nightingale,Used

The Simurgh and the Nightingale,Used

In Stock
SKU: SONG1898256470
Brand: Collins Press
$148.63
Quantity
Add to wishlist
Add to compare

Processing time: 1-3 days

US Orders Ships in: 3-5 days

International Orders Ships in: 8-12 days

Return Policy: 15-days return on defective items

Payment Option
Payment Methods

Help

If you have any questions, you are always welcome to contact us. We'll get back to you as soon as possible, withing 24 hours on weekdays.

Customer service

All questions about your order, return and delivery must be sent to our customer service team by e-mail at yourstore@yourdomain.com

Sale & Press

If you are interested in selling our products, need more information about our brand or wish to make a collaboration, please contact us at press@yourdomain.com

While researching women's hospitals in the early Ottoman Empire, Irishman Roger Derham found a letter in the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul. Written in the maghribi Arabic of North Africa it was signed by Catherine Cullen of Ireland. Derham's quest to find out who this woman was led to his writing this fascinating first novel of love, danger, and intrigue. In June 1631, Catherine Cullen, a barbersurgeon and free woman in Dublin, visits Baltimore in southwest Ireland. She is captured by Algerian pirates and taken to North Africa. Because of her rare skills she is given unusual freedoms on the ship and later as well. She spends a few years in North Africa and while there she falls in love with a Ragusian knight who is searching for a muchcoveted scroll. She later goes to Constantinople where she becomes involved in setting up a place to provide health services. Their destinies seemed intertwined, as his quest leads him there as well. Their story ends in Ragusa during the devastating earthquake of 1667. This is a powerful and imaginative piece of historical fiction. Derham deftly weaves Christian, Judean, Muslim and Sufi mysticism to create this puzzling, strange, and often forbidding world of 17th century Mediterranean life and adventure.

⚠️ WARNING (California Proposition 65):

This product may contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.

For more information, please visit www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.

Recently Viewed