Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia more books like this

by Jean Sasson

This is the true story of a woman born to unbelievable wealth, who had the courage to challenge the traditions and religious laws that make the life of women in Saudi Arabia a barren, hopeless wasteland. Princess Sultana, who cannot reveal her real name for fear of death, has told her story to the bestselling author of The Rape of Kuwait.

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Princess Sultana's Circle more books like this

by Jean Sasson

As with her two previous bestsellers "Princess" and "Princess Sultana's Daughters", the story of Sultana continues now with "Princess Sultana's Circle". It is a haunting look at the danger of Saudi male dominance and the desperate lives of the women they rule.

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Desert royal more books like this

by Jean Sasson

The author continues her story of human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia against women. Here, Princess Sultana tells of her own life and that of her family. The forced marriage of her niece to a cruel older man make her even more determined to fight the oppression of women in Saudi Arabia.

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Sultana more books like this

by Jean Sasson

Based on a true account of a Saudi Arabian princess, "Sultana" is the fictionalized story of a woman, born in the opulence of the Saudi Arabian royal family, who has the courage to defy the norms and traditions that force her to live in a golden cage. Risking death itself, Princess Sultana reveals in this work the terrible oppression and fear ...

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The Sultana Tragedy: America's Greatest Maritime Disaster more books like this

by Jerry O Potter

"Lee Surrenders!" "President Murdered!" "Booth Killed!" screamed the headlines of American newspapers in April 1865, leaving little room for mention of a maritime disaster that to this day stands as America's worst. On April 27, 1865, the Sultana, a wooden-hulled steamboat carrying six times the legal capacity, exploded on the Mississippi River, ...

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Disaster on the Mississippi: The Sultana Explosion, April 27, 1865 more books like this

by Gene Eric Salecker

At two o'clock in the morning on 27 April 1865, seven miles north of Memphis on the Mississippi, the boilers of the sidewheel steamboat "Sultana" suddenly exploded. Legally registered to carry 376 people, the boat was packed with 2,100 recently released Union prisoners-of-war. Over 1,700 people died, making it the worst marine disaster in U.S. ...

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Emma Eileen Grove more books like this

by Kathleen Duey

In this story, set in Vicksburg Mississippi just after the Civil War, Emma and her brother and sister are left stranded when their mother dies and their father is listed as one of the War's missing. As the trio travel by steamship to relatives in St. Louis, Emma discovers that she has more courage then she expected.

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Cahaba Prison more books like this

by William O Bryant

"A delight for any student of the Civil War". -- The Courier

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Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors more books like this

by Chester D Berry (Editor), Peter S Carmichael (Editor), David Madden (Foreword by)

Originally published in 1892, "Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors is a collection of first-hand accounts by those who lived to tell the story of perhaps the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history. One the Mississippi River just above Memphis at two o'clock on the morning of April 27, 1865, the steamboat "Sultana, carrying over 2 ...

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Schooner Sultana: Building a Chesapeake Legacy more books like this

by Mr. Lucian Niemeyer, Drew McMullen (Text by)

The original schooner Sultana was built in Boston in 1767 and sold to the British navy the next year. She was the smallest schooner ever to serve in the Royal Navy. Used to enforce the "tea taxes" on the North American coast up to the time of the American Revolution, she visited eleven of the thirteen American colonies and engaged American sailors ...

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Sultan Raziya, her life and times : a reappraisal more books like this

by Jamila Brij Bhushan

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The Sultana Saga: The Titanic of the Mississippi more books like this

by Rex T Jackson

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Razia: Queen of India more books like this

by Rafiq Zakaria

This is the story of Razia, one of the most colourful characters in Indian history and the only queen who ever sat on the throne of Delhi.

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Transport to disaster. more books like this

by James Walter Elliott

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