The Sultan and the Queen : the untold story of Elizabeth and Islam /

Brotton, Jerry,

The Sultan and the Queen : the untold story of Elizabeth and Islam / This Orient Isle Jerry Brotton - New York : Penguin books, c 2016 - 338 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map, portraits ; 23 cm

"First published in Great Britain as This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, 2016."--Title page verso "First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016."--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-324) and index

Conquering Tunis -- The Sultan, the Tsar and the Shah -- The Battle for Barbary -- An Apt Man in Constantinople -- Unholy Alliances -- Sultana Isabel -- London Turns Turk -- Mahomet's Dove -- Escape from the Seraglio -- Sherley Fever -- More than a Moor -- Epilogue

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Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603
Turkey--History--Murad III, 1574-1595
Great Britain--Foreign relations--Turkey
Turkey--Foreign relations--Great Britain

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