The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

Eberhardt, Isabelle

ISBN 10: 1566565081 / ISBN 13: 9781566565080

Published by Interlink Books, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
• Publisher: Interlink Books
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1566565081
• ISBN 13: 9781566565080
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

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Synopsis

In her short life Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) came to be known as the ultimate enigma and representative of everything that seemed dangerous in nineteenth-century society. Born the illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic Russian emigree she was a cross-dresser and sensualist, an experienced drug-taker and a transgressor of boundaries: a European reborn in the desert as an Arab and Muslim, a woman who reinvented herself as a man, wandering the Sahara on horseback. A profoundly lonely individual for all her numerous sexual adventures, she roused controversy and was loved and hated in equal measure. A mysterious attempt was made on her life and even her eventual death was ambiguous: she drowned in the desert at the age of twenty-seven. La bonne nomade, Isabelle’s diaries, is a fascinating account of her strange and passionate nomadic lifestyle; an evocative and deeply personal record of her torments, her search for inspiration as a writer, her spirituality and the intense color and fire of her living.

About the Author

Isabelle Wilhelmine Marie Eberhardt was a Swiss explorer and author. As a teenager, Eberhardt, educated in Switzerland by her father, published short stories under a male pseudonym.