by Cristina Morató · Debolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497938976
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«Las damas de Oriente: Grandes viajeras por los países árabes» is the biographical essay by Cristina Morató published by Debolsillo in paperback (432 pages).
Cristina Morató brings together the lives of British women travellers who, drawn by «Las mil y una noches», swapped their mansions for a nomadic life in the Arab world. Amid harems, bazaars, caravans and dangers such as pillaging or epidemics, the standouts are lady Mary Montagu, lady Hester Stanhope, lady Jane Digby, Gertrude Bell, Freya Stark and Agatha Christie.
It is part of the «Best Seller» collection from Debolsillo, number 26200.
For readers interested in biographies of women, the history of the Arab world and travel literature.
