{"product_id":"the-immortal-journeys-of-isabelle-eberhardt-a-biography","title":"The Immortal Journeys of Isabelle Eberhardt: A Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Inspiring, exquisitely researched, and deftly written. I loved it.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author, Eat, Pray, Love\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this powerful new biography, the radical adventuress Isabelle Eberhardt emerges as a brilliant modern figure who lived on her own terms—crossing boundaries of gender, faith, empire, and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn The Immortal Journeys of Isabelle Eberhardt , eminent literary scholar Hédi A. Jaouad offers a bold reexamination of the Swiss-born writer and adventurer whose short life (1877–1904) has long been romanticized, misread, or exoticized. Jaouad explores Eberhardt’s spatial existence—dizzyingly mobile, vividly immersive—from a precocious outcast in Geneva to a shape-shifting wanderer in colonial North Africa who lived disguised as an Arab man, converted to Islam, joined a Sufi brotherhood, and fiercely challenged the moral and political boundaries of her time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Publishers Weekly raved, “Once dismissed as an eccentric, Eberhardt emerges here as a visionary who embodied the spirit of adventure through her nonconformist life. It’s a vivid portrait of a revolutionary.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSexually ambiguous, spiritually uncontainable, and politically subversive, Eberhardt’s life was lived in deliberate defiance of colonial norms and gendered expectations. Yet she remains difficult to categorize: part saint, part scandal, part cipher. Jaouad’s approach neither sanitizes her kif-fueled escapades nor sensationalizes her untimely death in a flash flood at Aïn Séfra. Instead, he shows how her lived experience was always tethered to the landscapes she inhabited.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers captivated by outsider lives, feminist iconoclasts, and the search for personal sovereignty, The Immortal Journeys of Isabelle Eberhardt is a landmark biography. It lets Eberhardt emerge not as a symbol or mirage, but as a fiercely real figure—forever on the move, and more relevant now than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":53957996052848,"sku":"978-1953103727","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/71cFarsivRL._SY522.jpg?v=1782789066","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/de\/products\/the-immortal-journeys-of-isabelle-eberhardt-a-biography","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}