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Author:
Pilsztynowa, Regina Salomea, 1718-1764? author.
Title:
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.
Publisher:
Iter Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
vii, 305 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Pilsztynowa, Regina Salomea,--1718-1764--Travel.
Turkey--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
Balkan Peninsula--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
Europe, Eastern--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
Poland--Biography.
Women in medicine--Biography.
Women optometrists--Biography.
Other Authors:
Roczniak, Wladyslaw, translator. translator.
Other Titles:
Echo na swiat podane procederu podróży y życia mego awantur. English
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Series:
The other voice in early modern Europe: the Toronto series ; 78
ISBN:
1649590040
9781649590046
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1137195548
LCCN:
2019043807
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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