The Wilder Shores of Love - Brossura

Blanch, Lesley

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0786710306 ISBN 13: 9780786710300

Casa editrice: Da Capo Pr, 2002

Riassunto

For the four women included in this classic volume of biography, the wilder shores of love lay east of their native Europe—in Arabia, for Victorian Isabel Arundell, who married the defiantly unorthodox social outlaw and adventurer Burton of Arabia; in a harem, for Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, a convent girl abducted by Corsair pirates and presented to the ruler of the Ottoman Empire; in Bedouin tents and the bed of Sheik Abdul Madjuel El Mezrab for the raffish divorcee Jane Digby; and in the Sahara, for the Russian-born Isabelle Eberhardt, who entered the world of desert Arabs dressed as a man. "Love, wanderlust, faraway places—all that Romance implies—make up this delicious book.... Ideal reading."—Washington Post Book World "A splendid quartet of biographies ... it is as engrossing a literary trip through the exotic East as I have taken."—San Jose Mercury News "'A fabulous quartet' featuring four nineteenth-century women 'who out-dared the heroines of romance novels ... and swayed the course of empires.'"—New York Times Book Review

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• Editore: Da Capo Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0786710306
• ISBN 13: 9780786710300
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352