The Wilder Shores of Love
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ); Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: August 5, 1993
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9781857990621
Subjects: Biography: general; Classic travel writing; Other prose: 19th century; Women's studies; Literature: Classics
First sentence: The four women who form the subject of this book might be described as northern shadows flitting across a southern landscape.
Description: "The four women who form the subject of this book belonged to the West ... Each found, in the East, glowing horizons of emotion and daring."

Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, a convent girl captured by corsairs and sold into the Harem of the Grand Turk; Lady Ellenborough, a society beauty who fled London for Athens, and Athens for the Syrian tent of Sheikh Medjuel El Bezrab; Isabel Burton, whose explorer husband's love for the East became her passion; and Isabelle Eberhardt, transvestite and linguist, whose love affair with the East ended when she drowned in the desert sand at the age of twenty-seven...
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; title: Isabel Burton: A Two-headed Profile
pagenum: 7; title: Jane Digby El Mezrab: Matrimonial Theme and Variations
pagenum: 131; title: Aimee Dubucq de Rivery: A Message from a Ghost
pagenum: 197; title: Isabelle Eberhardt: Portrait of a Legend
pagenum: 271; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 312; title: Index
pagenum: 317