by Isabelle Eberhardt, Christian Bouqueret · Rowohlt Tb. · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9783499152320
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«Sandmeere 2» is a collection of Islamic notes and writings by Isabelle Eberhardt, published by Rowohlt Tb. in paperback (406 pages, in German).
A work bringing together travel notes, personal reflections and texts on Islam written by Isabelle Eberhardt, who travelled through North Africa at the beginning of the 20th century. Its pages evoke the vastness of the desert, nomadic life and the encounter with a culture that profoundly marked her writing, between fascination and melancholy.
Second volume in the «Sandmeere» series, part of the rororo Neue Frau collection; edited by Christian Bouqueret, with a foreword by Hans Christoph Buch and translated from the French by Grete Osterwald.
For readers interested in travel literature, Islamic culture and the figure of Isabelle Eberhardt.
Isabelle Wilhelmine Marie Eberhardt was a Swiss explorer and author. As a teenager, Eberhardt, educated in Switzerland by her father, published short stories under a male pseudonym. She became interested in North Africa, and was considered a proficient writer on the subject despite learning about the region only through correspondence. After an invitation from photographer Louis David, Eberhardt moved to Algeria in May 1897. She dressed as a man and converted to Islam, eventually adopting the name Si Mahmoud Saadi. Eberhardt's unorthodox behaviour made her an outcast among European settlers in Algeria and the French administration.
