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Overview
Eberhardt's journal chronicles the daring adventures of a late 19th- century European woman who traveled the Sahara desert disguised as an Arab man and adopted Islam. Includes a glossary. Previously published in English by Virago Press in 1987, and as The Passionate Nomad by Virago/Beacon Press in 1988. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, ORSynopsis
Eberhardt's journal chronicles the daring adventures of a late 19th- century European woman who traveled the Sahara desert disguised as an Arab man and adopted Islam. Includes a glossary. Previously published in English by Virago Press in 1987, and as The Passionate Nomad by Virago/Beacon Press in 1988. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The New York Times
The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt, edited by Elizabeth Kershaw, is rather different: a rich but fragmented chunk of pure romantic agony. The diaries were found in the aftermath of the flash flood that killed their author, a young Russian woman who became an Islamic mystic, pursuing unofficial love and her own spiritual bent (and hashish and booze) through the sands of the Sahara in the early 1900's. — Michael Pye