Writings from the Sand, Volume 1: Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt

by Isabelle Eberhardt

Born in 1877 in Geneva, Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt became a rebel at an early age. She dressed like a man so she could have access to areas forbidden to women, smoked in public, and scandalized Genevan society. Already multilingual (French, German, and Russian), she began studying Arabic language and Islamic culture and eventually converted to Islam and joined a Qadiriyya Sufi brotherhood. Eberhardt traveled throughout North Africa and wrote...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803216114
• ISBN13: 9780803216112
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"