Isabelle
Life of Isabelle Eberhardt
Annette Kobak(Author)
Penguin Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 28. November 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-14-012084-4 (ISBN)
Description
Isabelle Eberhardt was a brilliant young writer who died at the age of 27 in 1904. She lived her short life to the full, always searching for an identity and a cause. She found both of these in the desert among the Arab people. She lived experimentally, cross-dressing, taking many lovers, marrying an Arab sergeant, becoming addicted to hashish. She died in a flash flood at a desert outpost and there is some question that her death was suicide. This biography tries to makes sense of a life full of contradictions, drawing on previously unpublished letters and diaries. Isabelle Eberhardt was an extraordinary woman, who refused to be bound by the conventions of her time and the society in which she lived. Perhaps the greatest tribute she was paid was to have a street named after her in her adopted city, Algiers, where only a few European names survive.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
208 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-012084-4 (9780140120844)
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