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Lesley Blanch, MBE, FRSL (6 June 1904 – 7 May 2007) was a British writer, historian and traveller. She is best known for The Wilder Shores of Love, about Isabel Burton (who married the Arabist and explorer Richard), Jane Digby el-Mezrab (Lady Ellenborough, the society beauty who ended up living in the Syrian desert with a Bedouin chieftain), Aimée du Buc de Rivéry (a French convent woman captured by pirates and sent to the Sultan's harem in Istanbul), and Isabelle Eberhardt (a Swiss linguist who felt most comfortable in boy's clothes and lived among the Arabs in the Sahara).[1]

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Lesley Blanch

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Lesley Blanch, MBE, FRSL (6 June 1904 – 7 May 2007) was a British writer, historian and traveller. She is best known for The Wilder Shores of Love, about...

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Blanch

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Look up blanch or blanching in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blanch or blanching may refer to: Andrea Blanch (born 1935), portrait, commercial, and...

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Romain Gary

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literature of the second half of the 20th century. He was married to Lesley Blanch, then Jean Seberg. Gary was born Roman Kacew (Yiddish: רומן קצב‎ Roman...

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The Wilder Shores of Love

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The Wilder Shores of Love is a work of non-fiction by travel writer Lesley Blanch. It was first published in 1954. It is a colourful account of four women...

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Chakobsa

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Paradise (1960), Lesley Blanch also makes mention of the "mysterious tongue" and "hunting language" Chakobsa. Possibly influenced by Blanch's book, Frank Herbert...

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Harriette Wilson

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introduced by Lesley Blanch), London: Gryphon Books, 1957.-- Harriette Wilson's Memoirs. Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Lesley Blanch. London: The...

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Georgia de Chamberet

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executor of her godmother, the historian and traveller Lesley Blanch (1904-2007). She edited Blanch's memoirs, On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life...

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Catherine McCormack

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Post-production 2014 Magic in the Moonlight Olivia 2016 The Journey Kate Elgar 2017 Promise at Dawn Lesley Blanch 2019 The Song of Names Helen 2019 Cordelia Kate...

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Lesley

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American military officer Lesley Blanch (1904–2007), British writer and editor Lesley Gill, American anthropology professor Lesley Stahl (b. 1941), American...

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Jean Seberg

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diplomat Romain Gary, who was 24 years her senior and married to author Lesley Blanch. Seberg gave birth to their son, Alexandre Diego Gary, in Barcelona...

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Menton

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Scored the first goal in an English FA Cup Final. Died in Menton. Lesley Blanch (1904–2007), English-born writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867–1928),...

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Isabelle Eberhardt

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ended. Historian Lesley Blanch attributes the relationship's downfall to Bey being assigned to Stockholm. Trophimowsky died in May. Blanch attributes the...

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Jane Digby

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Pamela Churchill Harriman. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-684-80950-8. Lesley Blanch, The Wilder Shores of Love: The Exotic True-life Stories of Isabel Burton...

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Hadji Murad

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accuracy WRMEA, The Sabres of Paradise reviewed by Mowahid H. Shah IMDB Lesley Blanch "The Sabres of Paradise". Kaziev, Shapi. Imam Shamil. "Molodaya Gvardiya"...

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1904 in the United Kingdom

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2000) 4 June – Jack Lauterwasser, racing cyclist (died 2003) 6 June – Lesley Blanch, writer and fashion editor (died 2007) 8 June – Angus McBean, photographer...

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Aleksey Yermolov

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March 2003. pp.177–194. [1] Lesley Blanch, The Sabres of Paradise: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus; p. 24 Lesley Blanch, pp. 23-24 Алексей Петрович...

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Pierre Loti

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Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803292246. Lesley Blanch (1983). Pierre Loti: Portrait of an Escapist. London: Collins. ISBN 9780002116497...

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Imam Shamil

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Shamil". Kaukasische Novellen, Leipzig, 1932; Munich, 1979 (in German) Lesley Blanch. The Sabres of Paradise. New York: Viking Press. 1960. Nicholas Griffin...

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Le Mariage de Loti

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perspective it is largely seen as racist and imperialistic. As biographer Lesley Blanch says, "Loti's works helps to sustain [the] gratifying image of cultural...

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Sophia Dubochet

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1998), page 90. Harriette Wilson's Memoirs; selected and edited by Lesley Blanch. London: Phoenix Press, 2003 "Berwick, Baron (GB, 1784 - 1953)". www...

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June 1904

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inside the Union hall resulted in multiple injuries and arrests. Born: Lesley Blanch, British writer and traveler; in Chiswick, London, England (d. 2007)...

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Russian conquest of Chechnya and Dagestan

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"Gharashkiti in the community of Shubut [Shato]", possibly on the Argun River. Lesley Blanch, 'The Sabres of Paradise', page 219. This is one of the few good stories...

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My Brother Yves

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plays a role in Fleurs d'ennui (1882), and Madame Chrysanthème (1887). Lesley Blanch (1983). Chapter 8. See for example the entry for "Pierre Loti" in the...

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Gerald de Gaury

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hours after they had occurred. He was a close friend of Freya Stark and Lesley Blanch, who said of him: "He spoke beautiful Arabic, and could talk Arabic...

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