An edition of The wilder shores of love (1954)

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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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Simon and Schuster
Language
English
Pages
332

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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
Cover of: The Wilder Shores of Love
The Wilder Shores of Love
April 15, 1970, Touchstone
Paperback in English
Cover of: The wilder shores of love.
The wilder shores of love.
1954, Simon and Schuster
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Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 327-332.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
920.7
Library of Congress
CT3203 .B55, CT3203B55

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 332 p.
Number of pages
332

ID Numbers

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OL6155083M
LCCN
54008642
OCLC/WorldCat
1561795
Library Thing
25000

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