THE WILDER SHORES OF LOVE

Fascinating stuff, well researched and well written. Don't be put off by the title (or the cover).

What makes a great woman, is it love, sacrifice, adventure, giving? Each of these women were great in their own way because they saw past the horizon they lived in to something more. They strived to be something more, to understand an area that no one cared to understand at the time. Each woman lived in her own way, they left last examples of never giving up, never quitting, and living life to the fullest in any way they could.

Thank you so much ! The book arrived puntually and in perfect condition; just what I wanted- really excellent service.

Four extremely interesting women - though can we be sure the third existed? Reads more like a novel than a seriously researched set of biographies. Perhaps each of them warrant a separate book and some new young feminist will follow them up.

I'd already read a biog of Jane Digby el Mezrab and was curious as to several other young European women who found a life in the old Middle East. I thought this book would give me some insight into these women. However, the way the author writes is just a little sensational, much of it simply conjecture and assumed with nothing to support it instead of just stating whatever facts she hunted down. Blanch has obviously done her research but then instead of stating it academically, she feels the need to turn it more into gossip and rumor which ruins the account of what these women may have experienced. In fact, considering there are several good biographies on Jane Digby el Mezrab already, she almost glosses over the woman, and what she does report is not even accurate. I recommend this book only as a means to names, places, dates, and other ancient Persian words/positions from which to use in researching what life must have been like for these women back in their day.