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Isabelle Eberhardt

Departures: Selected Writings

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Isabelle Eberhardt dreamed of escaping the gloom of Europe, and when she was nineteen she realized her desire in North Africa--Dar el Islam. In 1904, when she died in a flash flood in the Sahara, she was only twenty-seven years old, and had led a legendary, tempestuous life that encompassed both subversive political anarchism and the mysticism of Islam.This selection of short stories, reportage, and travel journals, which glow with sensuous detail, superbly evokes the life of the desert towns and nomadic peoples of the Saharan region of Morocco and Algeria. As a radical individualist, Eberhardt identified with and defended the oppressed; yet… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-87286-288-3
  • EAN: 9780872862883
  • Produktnummer: 19617379
  • Verlag: City Lights
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Masse: H20.2 cm x B13.9 cm x D1.3 cm 327 g
  • Gewicht: 327

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Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) was an explorer who lived and traveled extensively throughout North Africa. She wrote of her travels in numerous books and French newspapers, including Nouvelles Algeriennes [Algerian News] (1905), Dans l'Ombre Chaude de l'Islam [In the Hot Shade of Islam] (1906), and Les journaliers [The Day Laborers] (1922).

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