The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

by Isabelle Eberhardt, Nina Voogd, Elizabeth Kershaw

Overview

Eberhardt's journal chronicles the daring adventures of a late 19th- century European woman who traveled the Sahara desert disguised as an Arab man and adopted Islam. Includes a glossary. Previously published in English by Virago Press in 1987, and as The Passionate Nomad by Virago/Beacon Press in 1988. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781566565080
Publisher:	Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/01/2003
Edition description:	1 AMER ED
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	396,002
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.60(d)

Editorial Reviews

The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt, edited by Elizabeth Kershaw, is rather different: a rich but fragmented chunk of pure romantic agony. The diaries were found in the aftermath of the flash flood that killed their author, a young Russian woman who became an Islamic mystic, pursuing unofficial love and her own spiritual bent (and hashish and booze) through the sands of the Sahara in the early 1900's. — Michael Pye

The New York Times