The Sultan's shadow one family's rule at the crossroads of East and West / [Book] :
Christiane Bird.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Random House, c2010.
- xxii, 374 p. ; 25 cm.
Oman's Sultan Said and his rebellious daughter Princess Salme--comes to life in this compelling narrative. Sultan Said and his descendants were shadowed and all but shattered by the rise and fall of East Africa's nineteenth-century slave trade.