$41.05
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2010
Summary
The Wilder Shores Of Love: Four Women’s Journeys to the East
Lesley Blanch explores the lives of four extraordinary women who defied 19th-century European society to seek love and fulfillment in the Middle East.
- Isabel Burton: Wife of the renowned Arabist and explorer, Richard Burton.
- Jane Digby el-Mezrab: Formerly Lady Ellenborough, a celebrated society beauty who embraced a life in the Syrian desert with a Bedouin chieftain.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753827918 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0753827913 |
| Author: | Lesley Blanch |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2010 |
| Weight: | 291g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 28mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Their true stories, first told grippingly by Blanch in 1954, are amazing…makes you realise that we, with our wimpish long-haul packages and compulsory travel insurance, don’t know we’re born.
Their true stories, first told grippingly by Blanch in 1954, are amazing…makes you realise that we, with our wimpish long-haul packages and compulsory travel insurance, don’t know we’re born. – Val Hennessy * DAILY MAIL *
About The Author
Lesley Blanch
Lesley Blanch (1904-2007), a Londoner by birth, spent the greater part of her life travelling about those remote areas her books record so vividly. In the early 1930s she was among the few who adventured across the USSR. From 1937-1944 she was features editor of Vogue. In 1945 she married Russian-born diplomat Romain Gary. Life in the French diplomatic service took them from the Balkans, North Africa and the USA. They divorced in 1962. Lesley Blanch continued to travel, now East, now West, returning to the Sahara which had inspired her first celebrated book, THE WILDER SHORES OF LOVE.
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