The wilder shores of love

Description:

"The four women who form the subject of this book belonged to the West ... Each found, in the East, glowing horizons of emotion and daring." Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, a convent girl captured by corsairs and sold into the Harem of the Grand Turk; Lady Ellenborough, a society beauty who fled London for Athens, and Athens for the Syrian tent of Sheikh Medjuel El Bezrab; Isabel Burton, whose explorer husband's love for the East became her passion; and Isabelle Eberhardt, transvestite and linguist, whose love affair with the East ended when she drowned in the desert sand at the age of twenty-seven...

subjects: Biography,  Women,  Love in literature,  Women, europe,  Women, biography,  Women, africa,  Women, history,  Women authors,  Adventure and adventurers,  Women travelers,  Voyageuses,  Biographies,  Femmes,  Travelers,  Middle east, history,  Explorers,  Inheritance and succession

Places: Europe,  Near East,  North Africa