by Isabelle Eberhardt · BackList · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408078289
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Immerse yourself in the life of Isabelle Eberhardt through her diaries, a Swiss writer converted to Islam who explored North Africa under the name of Mahmoud Essadi. This book is a testament to a brave and sensual woman, whose existence was marked by flight, exile, and travel. Her sexual adventures and her relationship with drugs made her loved and hated, without finding the balance she sought. The diaries, spanning from 1900 to 1904, reveal a woman capable of penetrating her own biography and showing us the magic of a life lived to the limit.
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. She became interested in North Africa, and was considered a proficient writer on the subject despite learning about the region only through correspondence. After an invitation from photographer Louis David, Eberhardt moved to Algeria in May 1897. She dressed as a man and converted to Islam, eventually adopting the name Si Mahmoud Saadi. Eberhardt's unorthodox behaviour made her an outcast among European settlers in Algeria and the French administration.
