The Blazing World and Other Writings Oceans & Seas the Old City of Jerusalem

the Old City of Jerusalem comes to life: the sounds of juice vendors beating rhythms with brass cups

AND SILLY: Fun and funny combine in this adorable board book

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or any car ride to a dinner party with a little something wonderful and sweet

and the long shadow of the Khmer Rouge

The Blazing World and Other Writings Oceans & Seas the Old City of JerusalemThe Blazing World is a highly original work: part Utopian fiction, part feminist text, it tells of a lady shipwrecked on the Blazing World where she is made Empress and uses her power to ensure that it is free of war, religious division and unfair sexual discrimination. This volume also includes The Contract, a romance in which love and law work harmoniously together, and Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, which explores the power and freedom a woman can