The Wilder Shores of Love
by Lesley Blanch and Leslie branch gray
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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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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 successionPeople
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 AfricaShowing 4 featured editions. View all 23 editions?
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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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1857990625 9781857990621
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"The four women who form the subject of this book might be described as northern shadows flitting across a southern landscape."
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