Description
| Product ID: | 9781623717100 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Nomad |
| Subtitle: | Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt |
| Authors: | Author: Isabelle Eberhardt, Nina De Voogd |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book tells the fascinating tale of a character like no other—Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) came to be known as the ultimate enigma and representative of everything that seemed dangerous in nineteenth-century society. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Interlink Books |
| Publisher Name: | Interlink Publishing Group, Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-05-09 |