The Wilder Shores of Love

The Wilder Shores of Love
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 9781439197349
ISBN-13 : 1439197342
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Book Synopsis The Wilder Shores of Love by : Lesley Blanch

Download or read book The Wilder Shores of Love written by Lesley Blanch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1954, The Wilder Shores of Love is the classic biography of four nineteenth-century European women who leave behind the industrialized west for Arabia in search of romance and fulfillment. Hailed by The Daily Telegraph as "enthralling to read," Lesley Blanch’s first book tells the story of Isabel Burton, the wife and traveling companion of the explorer Richard Burton; Jane Digby, who exchanged European society for an adventure in loving; Aimée Dubucq de Rivery, a Frenchwoman captured by pirates who became a member of the Turkish sultan’s harem; and Isabelle Eberhardt, a Swiss woman who dressed as a man and lived among the Arabs of Algeria.

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