Desert Soul
A John Murray Journey
$33.21
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
11 October 2022
Summary
INTRODUCED BY WILLIAM ATKINS, author of The Immeasurable World
‘I am merely an eccentric, a dreamer who wishes to live far from the civilized world, as a free nomad.’
Isabelle Eberhardt’s writing chronicles, in passionate prose, her travels in French colonial North Africa at the turn of the 20th century. Often dressed in male clothing and assuming a man’s name, she worked as a war correspondent, married a Muslim non-commissioned officer, converted to Islam and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399804783 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399804782 |
| Author: | Isabelle Eberhardt |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 11 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 194mm x 124mm x 28mm |
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About The Author
Isabelle Eberhardt
Isabelle Eberhardt was born in 1877 in Switzerland. Already multilingual (French, German and Russian), she began studying Arabic language and Islamic culture and eventually converted to Islam, joining a Qadiriyya Sufi brotherhood. She died at the age of twenty-seven in a flash flood in the desert town of Ain Sefra, Algeria.
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