{"product_id":"the-oblivion-seekers","title":"The Oblivion Seekers","description":"Stories 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).","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":54546540659026,"sku":"9780872860827","price":16.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_15cc0f36-2958-45b1-bc67-5038f94b86bf.jpg?v=1788579910","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/the-oblivion-seekers","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}