The Wilder Shores of Love (Paperback)

from Ganeshaka

If I had to reduce my library to one shelf, this book would be on it. If all the other books were by and about men, Lesley Blanch's The Wilder Shores of Love, alone, would provide the gender balance. The suggestive title is misleading. This is not a romance novel, nor erotica. Think, instead, of ...

from shojo_a

I found this book on the bookshelf when I was vacationing with my family in the South of France. (Wow, that is possibly one of the most pretentious sentences I've every written. But that's I was.) It's beautifully evocative, instantly transported you back through time, into the lives of these fas...

from shojo_a

I found this book on the bookshelf when I was vacationing with my family in the South of France. (Wow, that is possibly one of the most pretentious sentences I've every written. But that's I was.) It's beautifully evocative, instantly transported you back through time, into the lives of these fas...

from bookwoman247

This book is a compilation of four mini-bios of women who lived from the 18th Century to the very early 20th Century. The thread that weaves these women's stories together is that their hearts and lives were inexorably bound to the Near East, and all bucked convention in one way or another. As a ...

from starbox

"Life's poetry never sank to prose", 1 February 2016 This review is from: On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life (Kindle Edition) Couldnt put this down - biographies of four women who 'belonged to the West but dared to turn to the East for adventure and love.' Thus such famous travellers a...