My Life’s Travels and Adventures
An Eighteenth-Century Oculist in the Ottoman Empire and the European Hinterland
Distributed for Iter Press
Edited and Translated by Wladyslaw Roczniak
305 pages
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6 x 9
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Other Voice
Her Life, Her Book, and Her Times
The Emancipate’s Journey
Pilsztynowa as Other, Pilsztynowa and Others
Note on Locations and Translation
My Life’s Travels and Adventures
Preface, To the Estimable Reader
Chapter One, First Journey to Istanbul, and Other Adventures
Chapter Two, My Second Marriage, and Other Adventures
Chapter Three, The Disagreement with Mr. Bekierski, and My Cavalier
Chapter Four, My Second Arrival in Istanbul
Chapter Five, The Turkish Sect
Chapter Six, The Route to Jerusalem
Chapter Seven, About Fasting on Saturdays
Appendix One: Glossary of Places
Appendix Two: Pilsztynowa’s Patients
Appendix Three: Chronology
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
The Other Voice
Her Life, Her Book, and Her Times
The Emancipate’s Journey
Pilsztynowa as Other, Pilsztynowa and Others
Note on Locations and Translation
My Life’s Travels and Adventures
Preface, To the Estimable Reader
Chapter One, First Journey to Istanbul, and Other Adventures
Chapter Two, My Second Marriage, and Other Adventures
Chapter Three, The Disagreement with Mr. Bekierski, and My Cavalier
Chapter Four, My Second Arrival in Istanbul
Chapter Five, The Turkish Sect
Chapter Six, The Route to Jerusalem
Chapter Seven, About Fasting on Saturdays
Appendix One: Glossary of Places
Appendix Two: Pilsztynowa’s Patients
Appendix Three: Chronology
Bibliography
Index
Review Quotes
Barry Keane, University of Warsaw
“Thanks entirely to the discovery of her lost memoir at the end of the nineteenth century, Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa enjoys the reputation of being the first female doctor in Polish history. And how all this came about is a fascinating story, vividly conveyed in Roczniak’s tour-de-force translation. . . . Pilsztynowa’s compelling story as told in this splendid critical edition is worthy of her legacy.”
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