The Sultan's Organ by John Mole
In 1599 Queen Elizabeth I sent a wonderful present to Sultan Mehmet I of Turkey. It was a self-playing organ, which could play for six hours, combined with a speaking clock and jewel-encrusted moving figures, all contained in a gilded cabinet sixteen feet high, six feet wide and five feet deep. With it went four craftsmen led by young Thomas Dallam, musician and organ builder. It took them six eventful months to get from London to Constantinople. They encountered storms, volcanoes, exotic animals, foreign food, pirates, brigands, Moors, Turks, Greeks, Jews, beautiful women, barbarous men, kings and pashas, armies on the march, janissaries, eunuchs, slaves, dwarves and finally the most powerful man in the world, the Great Turk himself. Thomas kept a fascinating diary, now in the British Library. Faithfully translated into modern English, unembellished and unedited, this marvellous traveller's tale reads as if its author were alive today.
John Mole was born in Birmingham England. After modern languages at Oxford and an MBA from INSEAD he had a succession of jobs from selling stencil duplicators in Eastern Europe to banking in the Middle East. He wrote the best-selling 'It's All Greek To Me!' about life in his village on Negropont - now known as Evia. 'The Sultan's Organ' is a modern English version of the wonderful diary of an Elizabethan musician, taking a self-playing organ and clock to Constantinople. 'I Was A Potato Oligarch' is about his doomed attempt to set up a fast food restaurant in Moscow. 'Mind Your Manners' is a best-selling guide to the business cultures of the new Europe. He has published three comic novels - 'Sail or Return', 'The Monogamist' and 'Thanks, Eddie!' They are all on Kindle.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780955756924 |
| ISBN 10 | 0955756928 |
| Title | The Sultan's Organ |
| Author | John Mole |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Fortune |
| Year published | 2012-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 106 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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