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"""A rich...fragmented chunk of pure romantic agony...Most travel books just arrive. This one has a much more powerful impact because it's about longing-for the Algerian soldier Eberhardt loves, for spiritual revelation, for a simple, wandering life with just a horse and 'a few servants barely more complicated than my mount.'...What's particularly striking is how her impossible passions break against the conventions of her time, conventions of writing as well as living."" ""Greatest Travel Books of All Time.""--Conde Nast Traveler ""Its most interesting passages are the letters she wrote during the trial of a man who had stabbed her, a man she was determined to defend despite his obvious guilt...[Eberhardt] rites articulately about her conversion to Islam, and shows a thoughtful understanding of French-African politics."" ""This slimmed-down edition of her diaries makes riveting reading, and throws light on a desert world that remains obscured by bigotry and ignorance."""

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Isabelle Wilhelmine Marie Eberhardt was a Swiss explorer and author. As a teenager, Eberhardt, educated in Switzerland by her father, published short stories under a male pseudonym.

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