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Desert Soul by Isabelle Eberhardt
Category: Travel | Series: JM Journeys
INTRODUCED BY WILLIAM ATKINS, author of The Immeasurable World'I am merely an eccentric, a dreamer who wishes to live far from the civilized world, as a free nomad.'Isabelle Eberhardt's writing chronicles, in passionate prose, her travels in French colonial North Africa at the turn of the 20th century. ...Show more
In the Shadow of Islam by Isabelle Eberhardt
Category: Biography
In the Shadow of Islam is an extraordinary evocation of the desert and its people by a woman who dressed as a man in order to travel alone an unimpeded throughout North Africa. In 1897 Isabelle Eberhardt, aged 20, left an already unconventional life in Geneva for the Moroccan frontier. Gripped by spirit ...Show more
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