The Wilder Shores of Love
by:
Lesley Blanch (author)
Four women who fled the confines of 19th century Europe for passion and adventure: Isabel Burton, Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, Jane Digby and Isabelle Eberhardt.
Four women who fled the confines of 19th century Europe for passion and adventure: Isabel Burton, Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, Jane Digby and Isabelle Eberhardt.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781439197349 (1439197342)
ASIN: 1439197342
Publish date: October 26th 2010
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
I found this book on the bookshelf when I was vacationing with my family in the South of France. (Wow, that is possibly one of the most pretentious sentences I've every written. But that's I was.) It's beautifully evocative, instantly transported you back through time, into the lives of these fascin...
Laguerre is considered one of the master authors of Puerto Rican literature. Some of his works are required reading in Puerto Rican schools. At one point, there was even a campaign to advocate for him receiving the Nobel in Literature. I read the book in graduate school for a Spanish American lit. c...