Tells the true story of Lady Hester Stanhope, who, at the turn of the 18th-century left her homeland and travelled through Cairo, Jaffa, Damascus, Palmyra. This biography explores the incredible life of a young woman.

This is a new release of the original 1934 edition.

Told with all the verve of its subject's life, based on much new source material and extensive travel in Hester's footsteps, 'Lady Hester' traces this extraordinary life from Downing Street to an isolated monastery in the hills of Lebanon - a stunning evocation of a unique and pioneering figure.

The physician of an unconventional, adventurous aristocrat recounts their time together and publishes her letters in this 1845 three-volume work.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

This 1846 three-volume work documents the adventures in the Middle East of the unconventional Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839).