An edition of The wilder shores of love (1954)

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"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...

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Abacus
Language
English
Pages
323

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Subjects
Biography, Women, Love in literature, Women, europe, Women, biography, Women, africa, Women, history, Women authors
People
Aimée Du Buc de Rovery (1776-1817), Aimée Dubuc de Rivery (1776-1817), Isabel (Arundell) Burton Lady (1831-1896), Isabel Burton (1831-1896), Isabel Burton Lady (1831-1896), Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904), Jane Digby (1807-1881), Jane Elizabeth Digby (1807-1881), Jane Elizabeth Digby Law Ellenborough Countess of (1807-1881)
Places
Europe, Near East, North Africa

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The Wilder Shores of Love
August 5, 1993, Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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The wilder shores of love
1984, Abacus
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The wilder shores of love.
1954, Simon and Schuster
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Originally published, London , J. Murray, 1954.

Bibliography, p312-316. - Includes index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
920.72/094
Library of Congress
CT3310

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Pagination
323p. ;
Number of pages
323

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OL16507069M
Internet Archive
wildershoresoflo0000blan
ISBN 10
0349103291
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25000
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1127562

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