The Oblivion Seekers and Other Stories Free Download PDF By Isabelle Eberhardt
| Title | : | The Oblivion Seekers and Other Stories |
| Author | : | Isabelle Eberhardt |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 96 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0486471810 |
These captivating stories and journal notes are the work of an extraordinary young Arabic scholar and Sufi mystic of the late nineteenth century A journalist for French language newspapers, Isabelle Eberhardt dressed as a man to travel throughout Islamic North Africa As a European who went native, she offers a unique perspective on the struggle against colonial dominat These captivating stories and journal notes are the work of an extraordinary young Arabic scholar and Sufi mystic of the late nineteenth century A journalist for French language newspapers, Isabelle Eberhardt dressed as a man to travel throughout Islamic North Africa As a European who went native, she offers a unique perspective on the struggle against colonial domination.Acclaimed by The Guardian as highly literary, evocative, romantic, these tales reflect the author s nomadic life and passionate adventures in sun baked Algerian villages and amid the vastness of the Sahara Paul Bowles, a master of the short story and author of The Sheltering Sky, translated Eberhardt s stories from the French . A fellow expatriate who made his home in North Africa, Bowles contributes a preface that offers an intriguing portrait of Eberhardt, who drowned in 1904 at the age of 27 but lives forever in a small but superb body of work
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Isabelle Eberhardt was a Swiss Algerian explorer and writer who lived and travelled extensively in North Africa For the time she was an extremely liberated individual who rejected conventional European morality in favour of her own path and that of Islam Dressed as a man, calling herself Si Mahmoud Essadi, Eberhardt travelled in Arab society, with a freedom she could not otherwise have experienc Isabelle Eberhardt was a Swiss Algerian explorer and writer who lived and travelled extensively in North Africa For the time she was an extremely liberated individual who rejected conventional European morality in favour of her own path and that of Islam Dressed as a man, calling herself Si Mahmoud Essadi, Eberhardt travelled in Arab society, with a freedom she could not otherwise have experienced She died in a flash flood in the desert at the age of 27 
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These captivating stories and journal notes are the work of an extraordinary young Arabic scholar and Sufi mystic of the late nineteenth century A jou
96 pagesIsabelle Eberhardt
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