Title: The wilder shores of love
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...
Subjects: Biography, Women, Love in literature, Women, europe, Women, biography, Women, africa, Women, history, Women authors, Adventure and adventurers, Women travelers, Voyageuses, Biographies, Femmes, Travelers, Middle east, history, Explorers, Inheritance and succession
Places: Europe, Near East, North Africa
People: Aimée Du Buc de Rovery (1776-1817), Aimée Dubuc de Rivery (1776-1817), Isabel (Arundell) Burton Lady (1831-1896), Isabel Burton (1831-1896), Isabel Burton Lady (1831-1896), Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904), Jane Digby (1807-1881), Jane Elizabeth Digby (1807-1881), Jane Elizabeth Digby Law Ellenborough Countess of (1807-1881), Du Buc de Rivery Aimee (1817)