num_pages: 360
description: INTRODUCED BY WILLIAM ATKINS author of The Immeasurable WorldI am merely an eccentric a dreamer who wishes to live far from the civilized world as a free nomad.Isabelle Eberhardts writing chronicles in passionate prose her travels in French colonial North Africa at the turn of the 20th century. Often dressed in male clothing and assuming a mans name she worked as a war correspondent married a Muslim non-commissioned officer converted to Islam and survived an assassination attempt all before dying in a flash flood at the age of 27.Desert Soul brings together her Wanderings and The Daily Journals detailing the ecstatic highs and the depressive lows of her short but unique and extraordinary life.
language: English
title: Desert Soul
publisher: John Murray