An edition of The wilder shores of love (1954)

The wilder shores of love

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An edition of The wilder shores of love (1954)

The wilder shores of love

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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...

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Abacus
Language
English
Pages
323

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Subjects

Biography, Women, Love in literature, Women, europe, Women, biography, Women, africa, Women, history, Women authors, Adventure and adventurers, Women travelers, Voyageuses, Biographies, Femmes, Travelers, Middle east, history, Explorers, Inheritance and succession

People

Aimée Du Buc de Rovery (1776-1817), Aimée Dubuc de Rivery (1776-1817), Isabel (Arundell) Burton Lady (1831-1896), Isabel Burton (1831-1896), Isabel Burton Lady (1831-1896), Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904), Jane Digby (1807-1881), Jane Elizabeth Digby (1807-1881), Jane Elizabeth Digby Law Ellenborough Countess of (1807-1881), Du Buc de Rivery Aimee (1817)

Places

Europe, Near East, North Africa

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Cover of: The Wilder Shores of Love
The Wilder Shores of Love
August 5, 1993, Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Cover of: The wilder shores of love
The wilder shores of love
1984, Abacus
in English
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The Wilder Shores of Love
April 15, 1970, Touchstone
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Cover of: The wilder shores of love.
The wilder shores of love.
1954, Simon and Schuster
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Originally published, London , J. Murray, 1954.

Bibliography, p312-316. - Includes index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
920.72/094
Library of Congress
CT3310

The Physical Object

Pagination
323p. ;
Number of pages
323

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Open Library
OL16507069M
Internet Archive
wildershoresoflo0000blan
ISBN 10
0349103291
Library Thing
25000
Goodreads
1127562

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