The Wilder Shores of Love by Lesley Blanch follows the lives of four women from nineteenth century Europe turning to the East in search of adventure and love.Blanch selected the protagonists because of their emotional achievements, daring to live as realists of romance: Isabel Burton who married the explorer Richard Burton, Jane Digby el-Mezrab also known as Lady Ellenborough the society beauty, Aimée Dubucq de Rivery , a French convent girl captured by pirates, and Isabelle Eberhardt a linguist who lived among the Arabs in the Sahara dressed as a man. They defied conventions and sought freedom in the East, each one in their own way but all of them, if not fully at least partially succeeding.The Wilder Shores of Love explores the thoughts and feelings of these remarkable women who swapped their ever increasingly regimented lives in Europe for less ordinary existences in lands where “there was still ‘world enough and time’ to be women”.