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The Wilder Shores Of Love (Paperback)
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The Wilder Shores Of Love (Paperback)
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The classic story of four nineteenth-century women who, for
different reasons, gravitated to the wildness of the Middle East
and North Africa. "There have been many women who have followed the
beckoning Eastern star" says Lesley Blanch. She writes about four
such women in The Wilder Shores Of Love - Isabel Burton (who
married the Arabist and explorer Richard), Jane Digby el-Mezrab
(Lady Ellenborough, the society beauty who ended up living in the
Syrian desert with a Bedouin chieftain), Aimee Dubucq de Rivery (a
French convent girl captured by pirates and sent to the Sultan's
harem in Istanbul), and Isabelle Eberhardt (a Swiss linguist who
felt most comfortable in boy's clothes and lived among the Arabs in
the Sahara). 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, The Wilder Shores Of Love pioneered a new
kind of group biography focusing on women escaping the boredom of
convention. Yet although of widely different natures, backgrounds
and origins, all had this in common - each found, in the East,
'glowing horizons of emotion and daring'. And each of them, in
their own way, used love as a means of individual expression, of
liberation and fulfilment.
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