{"product_id":"departures-selected-writings-9780872862883","title":"Departures: Selected Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs usual, Isabelle Eberhardt's stormy love affair with the Algerian desert sets the physical and emotional scene in this collection of short stories. Written in French in the late 1800s and translated by Karim Hamdy and Laura Rice, her characters live, love, work, and die with passions as fierce and brutal as the midday sun, reflections as gentle as the evening breeze, and happiness as beautiful and fleeting as the spring desert in bloom. As in 'The Oblivion Seekers, ' Eberhardt's descriptions and voices are as lyrical, harsh, and ultimately captivating as the North African land and people she knew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis selection of short stories, reportage, and travel journals, which glow with sensuous detail, superbly evokes the life of the desert towns and nomadic peoples of the Saharan region of Morocco and Algeria. As a radical individualist, Eberhardt identified with and defended the oppressed; yet she was a romantic as well, and ambiguous about the 'civilizing' role of France. Today she has become an iconic figure at the center of discussions about gender, race, colonialism, representation, and writing.--\u003ci\u003eBridge Over Traveled Water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Isabelle Eberhardt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e City Lights Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.96h x 5.49w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780872862883\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsabelle Eberhardt\u003c\/b\u003e (1877-1904) was an explorer who lived and traveled extensively throughout North Africa. She wrote of her travels in numerous books and French newspapers, including \u003ci\u003eNouvelles Algeriennes\u003c\/i\u003e [Algerian News] (1905), \u003ci\u003eDans l'Ombre Chaude de l'Islam\u003c\/i\u003e [In the Hot Shade of Islam] (1906), and \u003ci\u003eLes journaliers\u003c\/i\u003e [The Day Laborers] (1922).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40781810270323,"sku":"9.78087E+12","price":24.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_4f3d4104-e155-44b4-a9fa-cd885fa36dbe.jpg?v=1680703314","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/departures-selected-writings-9780872862883","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}