Desert Soul Av Isabelle Eberhardt

<p><b>INTRODUCED BY WILLIAM ATKINS, author of The Immeasurable World </b><br><br><b>''I am merely an eccentric, a dreamer who wishes to live far from the civilized world, as a free nomad.''</b><br><br>Isabelle Eberhardt''s writing chronicles, in passionate prose, her travels in French colonial North Africa at the turn of the 20th century. Often dressed in male clothing and assuming a man''s name, she worked as a war correspondent, married a Muslim non-commissioned officer, converted to Islam and survived an assassination attempt, all before dying in a flash flood at the age of 27.<br><br><i>Desert Soul</i> brings together her ''Wanderings'' and ''The Daily Journals'', detailing the ecstatic highs and the depressive lows of her short but unique and extraordinary life.</p>