{"product_id":"the-oblivion-seekers-0872860825","title":"The Oblivion Seekers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0872860825\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Eberhardt, Isabelle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStories and journal notes by an extraordinary young woman-adventurer and traveler, Arabic scholar, Sufi mystic and adept of the Djillala cult.\"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.\"One of the strangest human documents that a woman has given the world.\"-Cecily Mackworth, I Came Out of FranceIsabelle 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 Nouvelles Algériennes [Algerian News] (1905), Dans l'Ombre Chaude de l'Islam [In the Hot Shade of Islam] (1906) and Les journaliers [The Day Laborers] (1922).Paul Bowles has taped and translated numerous strange legends and lively stories recounted by Mrabet: Love with a Few Hairs (novel), The Lemon (novel), The Boy Who Set Fire (stories), Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins (stories), The Beach Café \u0026amp; Look \u0026amp; Move On (autobiography) and The Big Mirror (novella).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52197793300768,"sku":"NEW0872860825","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71nVL8MCfQL.jpg?v=1786965015","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-oblivion-seekers-0872860825","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}