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My life's travels and adventures : an eighteenth-century oculist in the Ottoman Empire and the European hinterland / Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa ; edited and translated by Władysław Roczniak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pilsztynowa, Regina Salomea, 1718-1764?, author.
- Series:
- Other voice in early modern Europe. Toronto series ; 78.
- The other voice in early modern Europe: the Toronto series ; 78
- Standardized Title:
- Echo na swiat podane procederu podróży y życia mego awantur. English
- Language:
- English
- Polish
- Subjects (All):
- Pilsztynowa, Regina Salomea, 1718-1764?--Travel.
- Pilsztynowa, Regina Salomea.
- Women optometrists.
- Women in medicine.
- Turkey--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Turkey.
- Balkan Peninsula--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Balkan Peninsula.
- Europe, Eastern--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Poland--Biography.
- Poland.
- Eastern Europe.
- Women in medicine--Biography.
- Women optometrists--Biography.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Early works.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 305 pages ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Eighteenth-century oculist in the Ottoman Empire and the European hinterland
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Iter Press, 2021.
- Language Note:
- In English; translated from Polish.
- Summary:
- "A memoir of the journeys of the eighteenth-century Polish oculist Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa through the Ottoman Empire, the Balkans, Poland-Lithuania, and Russia, detailing her experience as a stranger in distant lands, a Catholic Pole in a Muslim society, and a successful woman physician in a field reserved for men"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- My Life's Travels an d Adventures p. 45
- Preface, To the Estimable Reader p. 45
- Chapter 1 First Journey to Istanbul, and Other Adventures p. 45
- Chapter 2 My Second Marriage, and Other Adventures p. 80
- Chapter 3 The Disagreement with Mr. Bekierski, and My Cavalier p. 158
- Chapter 4 My Second Arrival in Istanbul p. 186
- Chapter 5 The Turkish Sect p. 203
- Chapter 6 The Route to Jerusalem p. 224
- Chapter 7 About Fasting on Saturdays p. 238.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa, 1718-1764? My life's travels and adventures
- ISBN:
- 9781649590046
- 1649590040
- OCLC:
- 1137195548
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