Dom żółwia. Zanzibar

In the nineteenth century Sultan Said made Zanzibar the centre of an empire built on the slave trade. The island's story, up to the present, when its coral reefs draw tourists, frames lives reconstructed with care: British explorers of Africa such as Livingstone, Stanley and John Kirk, the princess Salme, Arab intellectuals and political adventurers, an Indian architect, Europeans who made Zanzibar home, and the house where Freddie Mercury was born, which islanders are reluctant to acknowledge. It is also a bleak story of racial stereotypes that outlived colonialism.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

378 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Tanzania

First published

2011 by Znak

Author's age

75 when first published

ISBN

9788324018192 (original)