The Oblivion Seekers by Isabelle Eberhardt PB

Stories and journal notes by an extraordinary young woman–adventurer and traveler, Arabic scholar, Sufi mystic and adept of the Djillala cult.

“Not long before her death Isabelle Eberhardt wrote: “No one ever lived more from day to day or was more dependent upon chance. It is the inescapable chain of events that has brought me to this point, rather than I who have caused these things to happen.” Her life seems haphazard, at the mercy of caprice, but her writings prove otherwise. She did not make decisions; she was impelled to take action. Her nature combined an extraordinary singlness of purpose and an equally powerful nostalgia for the unattainable.”–Paul Bowles, preface.

“One of the strangest human documents that a woman has given the world.”–Cecily Mackworth, I Came Out of France