{"product_id":"9781439197349","title":"The Wilder Shores of Love","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wilder Shores of Love\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Lesley Blanch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1954, \u003ci\u003eThe Wilder Shores of Love \u003c\/i\u003eis the classic biography of four nineteenth-century European women who leave behind the industrialized west for Arabia in search of romance and fulfillment. Hailed by \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003eas \"enthralling to read,\" Lesley Blanch’s first book tells the story of Isabel Burton, the wife and traveling companion of the explorer Richard Burton; Jane Digby, who exchanged European society for an adventure in loving; Aimée Dubucq de Rivery, a Frenchwoman captured by pirates who became a member of the Turkish sultan’s harem; and Isabelle Eberhardt, a Swiss woman who dressed as a man and lived among the Arabs of Algeria.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Love, wanderlust, faraway places—all that Romance implies—make up this delicious book. . . . Ideal reading.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Over the years, many full-length biographies of [these] four heroines have been published. . . . But Lesley Blanch’s short, imaginative, and highly poetic account of their lives and personalities remains unsurpassed.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003eThe Independent \u003c\/i\u003e(London)\u003cbr\u003e“An exuberantly colorful book.”\u003cbr\u003e —Orville Prescott, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781439197349\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40592289333454,"sku":"9781439197349","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_b61e4bc1-ebdf-4267-837a-440ea3e4b49f.jpg?v=1637765279","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781439197349","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}