Thanks to Arab Lit in English for having run my "interview" with an anonymous 19th century authoress. In the autumn of 1859, an unaccompanied English lady left the UK to travel through Africa for the winter. Leaving Paris for Marseilles toward the end of October, she set sail heading for Algeria on a steamer with hundreds of other passengers. She arrived in Algiers after night-fall two days later and from the capital, her exploration of Algeria began, one that lasted several months. Post-travel, this tourist-explorer turned her observations of Algeria into a travel book that was published in 1863. Through Algeria , the travel tales and observations of this traveller, has come down to us today via Darf Publishers who reprinted it in 1984. Although the author is no longer alive, her first person account very much is. Vivacious, sharp and witty, her judgemental and conflicted text makes for a mine of information on the state of both Algeria and Europe barely 3...
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