I was already a nomad as a child

As a nomad, I have been one since childhood... I will remain a nomad for my entire life, in love with changing horizons, with yet unexplored distances, for every journey, no matter how crowded or familiar the areas may be, is an exploration, Isabelle Eberhardt noted in her diary on July 7, 1902. By then, she was already on her way, in the desert, where the nomads live, in the Algerian Sahara. She wears a burnous and turban and presents herself as "Si Mahmoud" or "Mahmoud Saadi." In this way, the world of men is open to her. She can smoke, drink, and use drugs with them. She wants to explore not only the distance but also her soul. "My body is in the West and my soul in the East. My body in the land of the unbelievers, and my heart is in Stambul...," she wrote to her brother August in 1895. Two years later, she traveled to Algeria and joined.