The Veiled Sultan

By March Cost

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814906664
• ISBN13: 9780814906668
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Vanguard Press
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Veiled Sultan

Like Anna and the King of Siam, the Veiled Sultan is based on a true and almost unbelievable story. Aimee Dubuc de Rivery, beautiful and young cousin of Josephine (later to become Empress), was returning to her native Martinique from convent school in France when she was kidnapped by pirates on the high seas and given as a gift to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire for his harem. From that time until her death, Aimee lived in this strange, seductive land, never again seeing or communicating with friends or family. But, despite her isolation and initial lonliness and fear, her life was to be filled with deep love and high achievement - rising to one of the most powerful positions in the world; she may, it is thought, even have been behind the strategy that led to Napoleon's defeat in Russia. The Veiled Sultan takes the reader into a totally different and absorbing world. One feels, in Miss Cost's pages, all the sensuousness and mystique of the East - the sumptuousness of the court and the Seraglio, the formality of highly civilized tradition so foreign to our own, the breathtaking beauty of sky and water and silhouetted minaret. Nor will the reader soon forget the romance and drama in the life of the lovely Roman Catholic girl whose abduction made her into one of the most remarkable women in history. -- from book's dustjacket