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The Wilder Shores of Love
Lesley Blanch
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Description for The Wilder Shores of Love
Paperback. The classic story of four nineteenth-century women who, for different reasons, gravitated to the wildness of the Middle East and North Africa. Num Pages: 336 pages, ill. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 316.
The classic story of four nineteenth-century women who, for different reasons, gravitated to the wildness of the Middle East and North Africa. There have been many women who have followed the beckoning Eastern star says Lesley Blanch. She writes about four such women in The Wilder Shores Of Love - Isabel Burton (who married the Arabist and explorer Richard), Jane Digby el-Mezrab (Lady Ellenborough, the society beauty who ended up living in the Syrian desert with a Bedouin chieftain), Aimee Dubucq de Rivery (a French convent girl captured by pirates and sent to the Sultan's ... Read more
The classic story of four nineteenth-century women who, for different reasons, gravitated to the wildness of the Middle East and North Africa. There have been many women who have followed the beckoning Eastern star says Lesley Blanch. She writes about four such women in The Wilder Shores Of Love - Isabel Burton (who married the Arabist and explorer Richard), Jane Digby el-Mezrab (Lady Ellenborough, the society beauty who ended up living in the Syrian desert with a Bedouin chieftain), Aimee Dubucq de Rivery (a French convent girl captured by pirates and sent to the Sultan's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
320g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753827918
SKU
V9780753827918
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Lesley Blanch
Lesley Blanch was born in London, England, and has travelled over most of the globe. She began her career as a painter, illustrator and theatrical designer, but in 1937 transferred her allegiance to journalism and became features editor of London VOGUE. Her essays and articles have since appeared in most of Britain's leading periodicals, including the OBSERVER and the NEW ... Read more
Reviews for The Wilder Shores of Love
Their true stories, first told grippingly by Blanch in 1954, are amazing...makes you realise that we, with our wimpish long-haul packages and compulsory travel insurance, don't know we're born.
Val Hennessy
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Val Hennessy
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