Enrich Your Travels with Longitude
We've got the classic, new and hard-to-find books and maps to help you get the most out of your adventures.
The Wilder Shores of Love
by Leslie Blanch
- EXPLORATION
- 2010
- PAPER
- 352 PAGES
E-MAIL
PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION
"There have been many women who have followed the beckoning Eastern star" says Lesley Blanch. She writes about four such women in this inspired classic, originally published in 1954: Isabel Burton (who married the Arabist and explorer Richard), Jane Digby el-Mezrab (Lady Ellenborough, the society beauty who ended up living in the Syrian desert with a Bedouin chieftain), Aimee Dubucq de Rivery (a French convent girl captured by pirates and sent to the Sultan's harem in Istanbul), and Isabelle Eberhardt (a Swiss linguist who felt most comfortable in boy's clothes and lived among the Bedouin in the Sahara).
Related Items
Longitude provides recommended reading for travelers in partnership with the leading tour operators and travel programs for hundreds of destinations worldwide. We've got the classic, new and hard-to-find books and maps to help you get the most out of your adventures.