The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt - Couverture souple

Eberhardt, Isabelle

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1566565081 ISBN 13 : 9781566565080

Editeur : Interlink Books, 2003

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Interlink Books
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1566565081
• ISBN 13: 9781566565080
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible