The Oblivion Seekers - by Isabelle Eberhardt (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Stories and journal notes by an extraordinary young woman--adventurer and traveler, Arabic scholar, Sufi mystic and adept of the Djillala cult.</p><p>Not long before her death Isabelle Eberhardt wrote: No one ever lived more from day to day or was more dependent upon chance. It is the inescapable chain of events that has brought me to this point, rather than I who have caused these things to happen. Her life seems haphazard, at the mercy of caprice, but her writings prove otherwise. She did not make decisions; she was impelled to take action. Her nature combined an extraordinary singlness of purpose and an equally powerful nostalgia for the unattainable. --Paul Bowles, preface.</p><p>One of the strangest human documents that a woman has given the world. --Cecily Mackworth, <i>I Came Out of France</i></p><p>Isabelle Eberhardt (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 <i>Nouvelles Algériennes</i> [Algerian News] (1905), <i>Dans l'Ombre Chaude de l'Islam</i> [In the Hot Shade of Islam] (1906), and <i>Les journaliers</i> [The Day Laborers] (1922).</p><p>Paul Bowles has taped and translated numerous strange legends and lively stories recounted by Mrabet: <i>Love with a Few Hairs</i> (novel), <i>The Lemon</i> (novel), <i>The Boy Who Set Fire</i> (stories), <i>Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins</i> (stories), <i>The Beach Café & Look & Move On</i> (autobiography), and <i>The Big Mirror</i> (novella).</p><br>
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