Wilder Shores of Love - Softcover
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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Their true stories, first told grippingly by Blanch in 1954, are amazing...makes you realise that we, with our wimpish long-haul packages and compulsory travel insurance, don't know we're born. (Val Hennessy DAILY MAIL)
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The classic story of four nineteenth-century women who, for different reasons, gravitated to the wildness of the Middle East and North Africa.
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Thus. Large softcover, glossy wrappers with color-illustration of horse and travel trunks on front, light red spine, white back wrapper with description of four women who traveled the world in the 19th Century. 332 lightly browned pages. Light wear near top front tip and spine top and bottom left edge, micronick at top back edge. Near Very Good. Seller Inventory # 40762
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