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Title: The Wilder Shores of Love: The Exotic True-Life Stories of Isabel Burton, Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, Jane Digby, and Isabelle Eberhardt by Lesley Blanch ISBN: 0-7867-1030-6 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: 10 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Seeking the adventure you never had?Make this book it's map!
Comment: God what a beautiful collection of real life stories and ones about women that way up most braggart adventures of men!(and I say that as a guy folks!). I was in a state of awe & envy throughout, fell dangerously in love with 3 out of 4 of the characters and am left disappointed only by my own world in result. This book is highly detailed and revealing of ins and outs of secret minds, hearts, places, women, individuals, religion, history and in many ways is scarily telling about truths of all. Its a gorgeous voyage and I give this book away too often but its one of those you know? Men or women I dare you to call yourself the same by its end!
Rating: 5
Summary: Golden Legends
Comment: In 1954 Lesley Blanch, a hard-headed romantic, brought out her affectionate studies of four determined women who followed their dreams Eastward without regard for consequences. Even the demure Aimee, abducted and sold as a slave, doggedly created a life for herself within a Turkish seraglio. Recent muddled books on these women often verge on either the pornographic or the bathetic; Blanch's account was light-hearted; her humor, sympathy, and realism tempered her admiration. This was a best-seller in 1954, and is still immensely readable -- even if Blanch spoke more languages than some annoyed reviewers, and was not suitably PC for 2003. Her autobiography is excellent too.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fascinating lives of western women in exotic locales
Comment: These accounts of four western women and how they lived in exotic lands serve best as an introduction, not as a particularly authoritative reference.
Definitely more high-brow than romance novels, if only by virtue of being true personalities, this book is a welcome bit of romantic escapism. Despite the fact that the author clearly admires and reveres these intelligent and adventurous women, the book disappoints on a couple of fronts. The writing (nearly half a century old) is peppered with somewhat embarassing colonial language about native beauty, genetically determined intelligence, and primitive sexiness. No blatant racism here, but plenty of indulgent speculation that comes off poorly today.
I found it annoying that the author used French liberally but without any attempt at translation; this usually appears in quotations and with a disclaimer that the flavor of the original language would be lost in any translation. I disagree: a skilled translator could handle it beautifully.
I personally enjoyed these accounts of the lives of women who ventured beyond the realm of other western women, who supported great men, or who even changed the course of history. But I felt I had received only part of the stories. I have yet to find more writings about these women, but I am sure they are out there. A very entertaining introduction to each subject's life.
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Title: Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark (Modern Library (Paperback)) by Jane Fletcher Geniesse ISBN: 0375757465 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 24 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell : Adventurer, Advisor to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach ISBN: 0385495757 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 20 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt by Isabelle Eberhardt, Elizabeth Kershaw, Annette Kobak, Nina De Voogd, Liz Kershaw ISBN: 1566565081 Publisher: Interlink Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Oblivion Seekers by Isabelle Eberhardt ISBN: 0872860825 Publisher: City Lights Publishers Pub. Date: 01 November, 1975 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton by Mary S. Lovell ISBN: 0393320391 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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