Isabelle: The Life of Isabelle Eberhardt

Kobak, Annette

ISBN 10: 0701127732 / ISBN 13: 9780701127732

Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1988

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Isabelle: The Life of Isabelle Eberhardt
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701127732
• ISBN 13: 9780701127732
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Book
  • Travel & Exploration

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Synopsis

Book by ANNETTE KOBAK

From Publishers Weekly

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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