Turkey / Peeps at Many Lands
By Julius R. Van Millingen
Length2h 31m
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Excerpt: ...mere tots can work calculations mentally in the course of their business. When they grow up to manhood many engage in window-cleaning, an occupation which has come to be a Jewish speciality, and which an Eastern servant will resent if called upon to undertake. Others go about riveting or cementing broken china, or, with a small charcoal brazier and soldering irons, as tinkers; others sell a special kind of sand for cleaning pots and pans, which they hawk about under its Latin name of arena. Some make a speciality of buying, washing, and sorting empty bottles, which they afterwards re-sell with profit; others, of course, buy up old clothes, or, with a capacious wooden box slung over their back, go about selling all those little articles which are indispensable to ladies. When called to a house they spread out all their paraphernalia, and the bargaining, which Easterners take such a delight in…
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length2 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
19JEWS—SUPERSTITIONS
2TURKEY
20A CEMETERY BY THE BOSPHORUS.
3CHAPTER I
21CHAPTER VII
4GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY
22GIPSIES—SUPERSTITIONS
5ROUMELI HISSAR.
23A FORTUNE-TELLER.
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6CHAPTER II
24CHAPTER VIII: SYRIANS, DRUSES, MARONITES, AND BEDOUINS
7ALBANIANS, POMAKS, TARTARS, AND BULGARIANS
25CHAPTER IX
8A SIMITDJI.
26TURKS
9CHAPTER III
27A TURKISH LADY IN OUTDOOR DRESS.
10CIRCASSIANS, LAZES, AND KURDS
28CHAPTER X
11A STAMBOUL BEGGAR.
29THE FAITH OF ISLAM
12CHAPTER IV
30INTERIOR OF THE MOSQUE OF SULTAN AHMED I.
13ARMENIANS
31CHAPTER XI
14IN THE GRAND BAZAAR.
32GAMES
15CHAPTER V
33A HOWLING DERVISH.
16GREEKS AND VLACHS
34CHAPTER XII: DOGS
17A SHEKERDJIS' SHOP.
35CHAPTER XIII: THE GALATA BRIDGE AND THE BAZAARS
18CHAPTER VI
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