The Wilder Shores of Love by Lesley Blanch (.ePUB)
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The Wilder Shores of Love by Lesley Blanch
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Overview: 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.
They all escaped from the constraints of nineteenth-century Europe and fled to the Middle East, where they found love, fulfillment and glowing horizons of emotion and daring. Blanch’s first, bestselling book, it pioneered a new kind of group biography focusing on women escaping the boredom of convention.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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