Large, sturdy, heavy book, quality red cloth, very bright gilt lettering on spine, three tiny dark spots inside front cover, two lighter in first front end paper, 258 lightly browned pages, including glossy photo section. DJ has very tiny nick near top front bookfold edge, micronick at bottom back tip. Near Fine DJ/Fine book.

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Title

Isabelle : The Life of Isabelle Eberhardt

Publisher

Chatto & Windus, London

Publication Date

1988

Language

English

ISBN 10

0701127732

ISBN 13

9780701127732

Binding

Cloth

Edition

First Edition

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

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Book by ANNETTE KOBAK

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This captivating biography describes a turn-of-the-century Russian adventurer who was drawn by her romance with Islam to travel throughout north Africa, writing about the lives of the colonial French and local Arabs . Her colorful career ended abruptly in death at the age of 27 in a torrential flash flood that struck a remote hillside garrison in Algeria. Born in 1877 in Geneva, Eberhardt bore the maiden name of her mother, who had left Russia and her elderly husband, a general, five years earlier to go to Switzerland with her children's tutor, an anarchist. Never sure of her identity, Eberhardt embraced a series of disguises as a teenager and afterward, taking a series of male noms de plume and dressing as a man, which eased her way into the tents and Moslem monasteries of the desert. What was not in question was her sexuality, which was decidedly hetero: Eberhardt's fondness for "nights of love" culminated in marriage to an Arab officer in the French colonial cavalry. In this well-researched book, Kobak, a British writer who translated Eberhardt's only published novel, Vagabond , skillfully weaves brief excerpts from her subject's work into her riveting story. Illustrated.
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