{"product_id":"the-immortal-journeys-of-isabelle-eberhardt-a-biography-hedi-a-jaouad-paperback","title":"The Immortal Journeys of Isabelle Eberhardt: A Biography -- Hédi A. Jaouad, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Inspiring, exquisitely researched, and deftly written. I loved it.\" --Elizabeth Gilbert, author, \u003ci\u003eEat, Pray, Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this powerful new biography, the radical adventuress Isabelle Eberhardt emerges as a brilliant modern figure who lived on her own terms--crossing boundaries of gender, faith, empire, and identity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Immortal Journeys of Isabelle Eberhardt\u003c\/i\u003e, eminent literary 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. Jaouad explores Eberhardt's spatial existence--dizzyingly mobile, vividly immersive--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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e raved, \"Once dismissed as an eccentric, Eberhardt emerges here as a visionary who embodied the spirit of adventure through her nonconformist life. It's a vivid portrait of a revolutionary.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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 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\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers captivated by outsider lives, feminist iconoclasts, and the search for personal sovereignty, The Immortal Journeys of Isabelle Eberhardt 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\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hédi A. Jaouad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Three Rooms Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9\" H x 6\" L x 0.61\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781953103727\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66866788827440,"sku":"9781953103727","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9781953103727.jpg?v=1783082423","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/the-immortal-journeys-of-isabelle-eberhardt-a-biography-hedi-a-jaouad-paperback","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}