The Wilder Shores of Love - Couverture souple

Blanch, Lesley

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0349103291 ISBN 13 : 9780349103297

Editeur : Abacus, 1988

Synopsis

Book by Blanch Lesley

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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

Biographie de l'auteur :

Lesley Blanch was born in London, England, and has travelled over most of the globe. She began her career as a painter, illustrator and theatrical designer, but in 1937 transferred her allegiance to journalism and became features editor of London VOGUE. Her essays and articles have since appeared in most of Britain's leading periodicals, including the OBSERVER and the NEW STATESMAN.

Her website is at www.lesleyblanch.com

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Abacus
• Date d'édition: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0349103291
• ISBN 13: 9780349103297
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 324