Kershaw, Elizabeth; Eberhardt, Isabelle

The Nomad : The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

Born the illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic Russian emigree, Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) was a cross-dresser and sensualist, an experienced drug-taker and a transgressor of boundaries: a woman who reinvented herself as a man, wandering the Sahara on horseback