The Wilder Shores Of Love
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: Yellowed with some tears. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: unmkd. Usual shelf-wear.
Four remarkable Western women — Isabel Burton, Jane Digby, Aimée Dubucq de Rivery, and Isabelle Eberhardt — abandoned the drawing rooms of Victorian Europe for the burning sands of the Arab world, each driven by an insatiable hunger for passion, freedom, and adventure beyond the pale of convention. Lesley Blanch's The Wilder Shores of Love chronicles their extraordinary lives with vivid, novelistic precision, tracing their journeys from the salons of England and France to harems, desert encampments, and the storied cities of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Blanch writes with a sensualist's eye and a historian's rigour, conjuring a world in which romantic obsession and cultural transgression were inseparable acts of defiance. The result is a work of breathtaking scope — part biography, part travel writing, part meditation on desire — that asks what compels a woman to forsake everything familiar in pursuit of a life utterly, magnificently her own.
Author: Lesley Blanch
Format: Hardback
Published: 1956, RU
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: Yellowed with some tears. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: unmkd. Usual shelf-wear.
Four remarkable Western women — Isabel Burton, Jane Digby, Aimée Dubucq de Rivery, and Isabelle Eberhardt — abandoned the drawing rooms of Victorian Europe for the burning sands of the Arab world, each driven by an insatiable hunger for passion, freedom, and adventure beyond the pale of convention. Lesley Blanch's The Wilder Shores of Love chronicles their extraordinary lives with vivid, novelistic precision, tracing their journeys from the salons of England and France to harems, desert encampments, and the storied cities of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Blanch writes with a sensualist's eye and a historian's rigour, conjuring a world in which romantic obsession and cultural transgression were inseparable acts of defiance. The result is a work of breathtaking scope — part biography, part travel writing, part meditation on desire — that asks what compels a woman to forsake everything familiar in pursuit of a life utterly, magnificently her own.