A Woman in African Desert

I have started reading Isabelle Eberhardt's In The Shadow of Islam which I bought last month from Strand book store. Actually the synopsis of the book forced me to buy it. The story is of early 19th century when a woman wearing men's clothes travels in the deserts of North Africa alone.

Isn't the concept exciting?

I was trying to imagine how would have been the situation then for her, how did she managed to travel and what was her intention behind it. Many questions and only one answer-- buy the book. So spent Rs 400 and copy was mine.

It is one of the books from Peter Owen series, original Arabic translated in English.

Isabelle was born in Geneva in 1877, the illegitimate daughter of a Russian priest and a half-Russian and half-German aristocrat. She spent much of her short life in north Africa where she converted to Islam. She died an unfortunate death at the age of 27.