{"product_id":"the-immortal-journeys-of-isabelle-eberhardt-a-biography-paperback","title":"The Immortal Journeys of Isabelle Eberhardt: A Biography - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHédi A. Jaouad\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Inspiring, exquisitely researched, and deftly written. I loved it.\" --Elizabeth Gilbert, author, \u003ci\u003eEat, Pray, Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this powerful new biography, the legendary fin-de-siècle adventuress Isabelle Eberhardt emerges as a radically modern figure who lived on her own terms--crossing boundaries of gender, faith, empire, and identity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Immortal Journeys of Isabelle Eberhardt\u003c\/i\u003e, acclaimed scholar Hédi A. Jaouad offers a bold reexamination of the Swiss-born writer and adventurer whose short life (1877-1904) has long been romanticized, misread, or exoticized. Unlike previous biographies, this book centers the profound relationship between Eberhardt's writing and the geographies she crossed--revealing how her identity, art, and inner life were shaped not by chronology, but by place. Her story is not one of linear progress, but of dislocation and expansion--where belonging is fluid, and selfhood is constantly rewritten across deserts, ports, souks, and borderlands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDivided into two parts--\"Isabelle Bound\" and \"Isabelle Unbound\"--the book traces Eberhardt's evolution from a precocious outcast in Geneva to a shape-shifting wanderer in colonial North Africa who lived disguised as an Arab man, converted to Islam, joined a Sufi brotherhood, and fiercely challenged the moral and political boundaries of her time. Jaouad explores how Eberhardt's spatial existence--dizzyingly mobile, vividly immersive--fueled a kind of life writing that is inseparable from place writing. Her diaries and sketches reveal a philosophy of motion as meaning: to cross into new terrain was, for her, to cross into new dimensions of self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSexually ambiguous, spiritually uncontainable, and politically subversive, Eberhardt's life was lived in deliberate defiance of colonial norms and gendered expectations. Yet she remains difficult to categorize--part saint, part scandal, part cipher. Jaouad's approach, grounded in both literary analysis and postcolonial insight, clears away the myth and restores Eberhardt's full human intensity. He neither sanitizes her kif-fueled escapades nor sensationalizes her untimely death in a flash flood at Aïn Séfra. Instead, he shows how her lived experience was always tethered to the landscapes she inhabited.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers captivated by outsider lives, feminist iconoclasts, and the search for personal sovereignty, \u003ci\u003eThe Immortal Journeys of Isabelle Eberhardt\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark biography. It lets Eberhardt emerge not as a symbol or mirage, but as a fiercely real figure--forever on the move, and more relevant now than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHédi A. Jaouad\u003c\/b\u003e, a native of Tunisia, is a leading scholar of North African literature. He is a Professor Emeritus of French and Francophone Studies at Skidmore College and the founder and editor of \u003ci\u003eRevue CELAAN\u003c\/i\u003e, a journal dedicated to enhancing our understanding of literature and the arts in North Africa. His numerous essays and articles, written in both French and English, have been published internationally in various journals. He is the author of six books: \u003ci\u003eBrowning Upon Arabia: A Moveable East\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLimitless Undying Love: The Ballad of John and Yoko\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Brownings' Shadow at Yaddo\u003ci\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBrowningmania: America's Love for Robert Browning\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eFugues de Barbarie: Les Écrivains Maghrébins et le Surréalisme\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eRimbaud et l'Algérie\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 270\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 12, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52071676903725,"sku":"9781953103727","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/the-immortal-journeys-of-isabelle-eberhardt-a-biography-paperback-6792549.webp?v=1780165565","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-immortal-journeys-of-isabelle-eberhardt-a-biography-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}