# Isabelle

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- Authors: [Annette Kobak](https://www.bookquiver.com/annette-kobak)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2006-06-01

## Description

Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) was born the daughter of a Russian emigres and raised in a climate of aristocratic anarchism. She reinvented herself as a desert Arab and a devout Muslim. She was a woman who preferred dressing like a boy and whose adventures - as a mystic, a connoiser of drugs, and a rumoured participant in sexual orgies - scandalised Europeans at the turn of the century. During her brief life she was a source of worried speculation to the French authorities in North Africa. After her death she became a legend: 'the amazon of the Sahara'.

## Editions

### Isabelle

- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-18-4408-342-8
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2006-06-01
- Language: en_GB