Description
Isabelle Eberhardt's life was one of the most extraordinary of any writer's of the last 150 years. Daughter of a Russian Nihilist who forbade her any contact with society, dressed her as a man and insisted her education include hard physical labor, she, unsurprisingly, ran away to North Africa in 1897. There she traveled through the Sahara and was initiated into Sufism, a rarity for white women. She produced a small but exceptional body of writing. This is a selection of her best stories and vignettes of African life, including several excerpts from her unfinished work.
Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
88 pages
Language
English
Published
Mar 1, 2007
Publisher
Peter Owen Ltd
Editions
6 editions
ISBN-10
0720612403
ISBN-13
9780720612400