{"product_id":"2026100008175-secondhand-the-wilder-shores-of-love","title":"The Wilder Shores Of Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Fair. Jacket: Yellowed with some tears. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: unmkd. Usual shelf-wear. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130725900507,"sku":"2026100008175-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c0e52ad2-ce7e-4327-9c7b-fa2ec761aedc.png?v=1786589374","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008175-secondhand-the-wilder-shores-of-love","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}