The Sultan's shadow : one family's rule at the crossroads of East and West / Christiane Bird.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Random House, c2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxii, 374 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780345469403 (alk. paper)
- 0345469402 (alk. paper)
- Saʻīd bin Sulṭān, Sultan of Zanzibar, 1791-1856
- Ruete, Emilie, 1844-1924
- Ruete, Emilie, 1844-1924
- Saʻīd bin Sulṭān, Sultan of Zanzibar, 1791-1856
- 1800 - 1899
- Princesses -- Oman -- Biography
- International relations
- Kings and rulers
- Princesses
- Oman -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
- Oman -- Relations -- Africa, East
- Africa, East -- Relations -- Oman
- Oman -- Relations -- Germany
- Germany -- Relations -- Oman
- Zanzibar -- History -- 19th century
- Africa, East
- Arab countries
- Germany
- Oman
- Tanzania -- Zanzibar
- 953.53 B 22
- DS247.O66 B57 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-364) and index.
Pt. 1: Oman. Beginnings -- Muscat -- 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 -- 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.
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.