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BLANCH, Lesley. The Wilder Shores of Love.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. First U.S. edition. Tall 8vo., cloth, 332pp. Bookplate o/w about fine in d/w with some chipping to spine ends, certainly better than very good. “There have been many women who have followed the beckoning Eastern star” says Lesley Blanch. She writes about four such women in The Wilder Shores Of Love — 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), Aimée 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 Arabs in the Sahara).”