Farah, Shahbanou of Iran, Queen of Persia

Blanch, Lesley

Collins

Physical description; 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm. Subjects; Loti, Pierre 1850-1923. Loti, Pierre 1850-1923 - Biography.

Pierre Loti: Portrait of an Escapist

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Wm. Collins Sons & Co.

Pierre Loti was a very popular writer in France in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries a very Scandalous character. He spent a long time in the French Navy where he visited many exotic ports and wrote about them. He himself was his greatest creation. 336 pages, B &amp; W photos.

Pierre Loti: The Legendary Romantic

Harcourt

Lesley Blanch here takes the reader on a uniquely romantic journey to the settings – caves, convents, harems and villas - where lovers have come together for a moment, a night or a lifetime. Her subjects are chosen carefully from those places in her travels where she has come upon a story that has fired the imagination. Some of the stories are of great and famous love affairs, others largely unknown - though no less intriguing. Blanch writes of Nelson and Lady Hamilton's scandalous affair in a suburban house in London; Pushkin and Countess Woronzov's trysts in a cave beside the Black Sea; Wagner and Cosima's Swiss villa; the doomed Carlotta and Maximilian's palace at Chapultepec; Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal's hidden room in crumbling Chatham Place and Chopin and George Sand's long years in her beloved Nohant. She resurrects Sultan Murad's room in the Seraglio and the madrassa of Bibi Hanum - Tamerlane's favourite wife – and tells the extraordinary story of Aurélie Picard, whose pavilion of the heart was deep in the Saharan desert.

Pavilions of the heart;: The four walls of love

History

Europe

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Most famous for The Wilder Shores of Love, her book about four women travellers, Lesley Blanch was a scholarly romantic and a bold writer. Her lifelong passion was for Russia, the Balkans and the Middle East. At heart a nomad, she spent the greater part of her life travelling the remote areas her books record so vividly.
Edited by her goddaughter Georgia de Chamberet, who was working with her in her centenary year, this book collects together the story of Blanch's marriage, previously published only in French; a selection of her journalism which brings to life the artistic melting pot that was London between the wars; and a selection of her most evocative travel pieces.
Illustrated with photos alongside a selection of line drawings by Lesley Blanch

On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life

Travel

De Chamberet, Georgia

Travel Writing

Virago

The Wilder Shores of Love (Abacus Books)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Carroll&Graf

Wilder Shores

Signet

Penguin??Books

The Sabres of Paradise: A magnificent account of the courage, fanaticism, and wild excesses of an almost unknown period of Caucasian history, when the ... the Muslim tribes led by Shamyl the Avar

Viking Press

The Sabres of Paradise

Quartet Books

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