The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

This book tells the fascinating tale of a character like no other--Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) came to be known as the ultimate enigma and representative of everything that seemed dangerous in nineteenth-century society.

In her short life Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) came to be known as the ultimate enigma and representative of everything that seemed dangerous in nineteenth-century society. Born the illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic Russian emigree she was a cross-dresser and sensualist, an experienced drug-taker and a transgressor of boundaries: a European reborn in the desert as an Arab and Muslim, a woman who reinvented herself as a man, wandering the Sahara on horseback. A profoundly lonely individual for all her numerous sexual adventures, she roused controversy and was loved and hated in equal measure. A mysterious attempt was made on her life and even her eventual death was ambiguous: she drowned in the desert at the age of twenty-seven. La bonne nomade, Isabelle's diaries, is a fascinating account of her strange and passionate nomadic lifestyle; an evocative and deeply personal record of her torments, her search for inspiration as a writer, her spirituality and the intense color and fire of her living.

Author: Isabelle Eberhardt
Publisher: Interlink Books
Published: 04/30/2024
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.34w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9781623717100
ISBN10: 1623717108
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- History | Modern | 19th Century
- Travel | Essays & Travelogues