This book tells the fascinating tale of a character like no other—Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) came to be known as the ultimate enigma and representative of everything that seemed dangerous in nineteenth-century society. In her short life Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) came to be known as the ultimate enigma and representative of everything that seemed dangerous in nineteenth-century society. Born the illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic Russian emigree she was a cross-dresser and sensualist, an experienced drug-taker and a transgressor of boundaries: a European reborn in the desert as an Arab and Muslim, a woman who reinvented herself as a man, wandering the Sahara on horseback. A profoundly lonely individual for all her numerous sexual adventures, she roused controversy and was loved and hated in equal measure. A mysterious attempt was made on her life and even her eventual death was ambiguous: she drowned in the desert at the age of twenty-seven. La bonne nomade, Isabelle’s diaries, is a fascinating account of her strange and passionate nomadic lifestyle; an evocative and deeply personal record of her torments, her search for inspiration as a writer, her spirituality and the intense color and fire of her living.
Isabelle Eberhardt Ordine dei libri
Isabelle Eberhardt fu un'esploratrice e scrittrice svizzera-algerina che visse e viaggiò ampiamente in Nord Africa. Per l'epoca, fu un individuo estremamente liberato che rifiutò la morale europea convenzionale a favore del proprio percorso e dell'Islam. Vestita da uomo, con il nome di Si Mahmoud Essadi, Eberhardt viaggiò nella società araba con una libertà che altrimenti non avrebbe potuto sperimentare. Morì in un'inondazione improvvisa nel deserto all'età di 27 anni.






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- 2022
INTRODUCED BY WILLIAM ATKINS, author of The Immeasurable World 'I am merely an eccentric, a dreamer who wishes to live far from the civilized world, as a free nomad.' 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. Desert Soul brings together her 'Wanderings' and 'The Daily Journals', detailing the ecstatic highs and the depressive lows of her short but unique and extraordinary life.
- 2009
Oblivion Seekers
- 88pagine
- 4 ore di lettura
Originally published: San Francisco: City Lights, 1975; London: Owen, 1988.
- 2004
Reisen als Lebensform
Isabelle Eberhardt, Reinhold Messner und Bruce Chatwin
- 360pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
Reisen und Identität in der Moderne Während manche das Ende des Reisens im „globalen Dorf“ diagnostizieren, ist zumindest die Reisesehnsucht - neben der Urlaubsroutine - in den westlichen Gesellschaften ungebrochen. Sabine Boomers beleuchtet die gegenwärtige Praxis des Reisens vor dem Hintergrund moderner Identitätssuche und beschreibt in Isabelle Eberhardt, Reinhold Messner und Bruce Chatwin drei verschiedene Typen des obsessiven Unterwegsseins. Diese Dauerreisenden erleben stellvertretend für das Publikum, was zu einem grundlegenden Begehren des modernen Menschen wurde: Sich im Reisen als anderer zu erfahren, das Selbst im Fremden zu entdecken und trotz der vermuteten Selbstfremdheit zu Ganzheit und Sinn zu finden.
- 2003
In the Shadow of Islam
- 122pagine
- 5 ore di lettura
In the Shadow of Islam is an extraordinary evocation of the desert and its people by a woman who dressed as a man in order to travel alone and unimpeded throughout North Africa. In 1897 Isabelle Eberhardt, age 20, left an already unconventional life in Geneva for the Morroccan frontier. Gripped by spiritual restlessness and the desire to break free from the confinements of her society she traveled into the desert, and into the heart of Islam. Her experiences inspired a profound self-examination, and In the Shadow of Islam is today regarded as one of the true classics of travel writing.
- 2002
Au pays des sables
- 188pagine
- 7 ore di lettura
Ce recueil de nouvelles évoque la révélation esthétique, puis sentimentale et mystique de cette jeune écrivain voyageur pour le désert du Sahara et plus particulièrement pour les paysages du Souf et sa confrérie. La découverte de ces contrés influenceront l'oeuvre et la vie de cette jeune femme disparue à 27 ans, noyée dans une crue en plein désert
- 2002
Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts kam sie im Alter von 27 Jahren in der algerischen Wüste ums Leben: die Schriftstellerin und Journalistin Isabelle Eberhardt. Sie hinterliess ein umfangreiches Werk: unvollendete Romanmanuskripte, Novellen, Reisenotizen, Tagebücher, Reportagen, Briefe, ein paar Zeichnungen – und eine provozierende Biographie. Anhand der nachgelassenen Aufzeichnungen geht Eglal Errera den Lebensstationen der Abenteurerin nach, die den grössten Teil ihres Erwachsenenlebens – reisend und schreibend – in der Sahara verbrachte.
- 2002
Ces journaux d’Isabelle Eberhardt rédigés entre 1900 et 1903 nous révèlent son âme profonde et tourmentée. La jeune aventurière, qui parle parfois au féminin, parfois au masculin, suivant ses états d’âme, décrit jour après jour avec autant d’émotion tant les couleurs changeantes du désert, la nostalgie du soir, la « tristesse qui est l’essence même de l’âme », que la joie des retrouvailles avec son amour arabe et ses cavalcades folles dans les dunes. Tous ses textes, même ceux écrits dans un style télégraphique, nous touchent parce qu’ils sont empreints d’une immense angoisse existentielle.





