The wilder shores of love
Lesley Blanch, Leslie branch gray · 2002
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"The four women who form the subject of this book belonged to the West ... Each found, in the East, glowing horizons of emotion and daring." Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, a convent girl captured by corsairs and sold into the Harem of the Grand Turk; Lady Ellenborough, a society beauty who fled London for Athens, and Athens for the Syrian tent of Sheikh Medjuel El Bezrab; Isabel Burton, whose explorer husband's love for the East became her passion; and Isabelle Eberhardt, transvestite and linguist, whose love affair with the East ended when she drowned in the desert sand at the age of twenty-seven...
Book details
- Year
- 2002
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Carroll & Graf
- Editions
- 10
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN
- 9780786710300
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