The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

by Isabelle Eberhardt

Book Overview

In her short life Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) came to be known as the ultimate enigma and representative of everything that seemed dangerous in nineteenth-century society. Born the illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic Russian emigree she was a cross-dresser and sensualist, an experienced drug-taker and a transgressor of boundaries: a European reborn in the desert as an Arab and Muslim, a woman who reinvented herself as a man, wandering the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566565081
• ISBN13: 9781566565080
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Interlink Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.2"