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Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari
by Shipman, Pat
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0060817283
- ISBN 13
- 9780060817282
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About This Item
New York, NY: William Morrow & Company, 2007. First Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Glued binding. Paper over boards. xi, [3], 450 p. Illustrations. References. Notes. Index. Margaretha Geertruida "Margreet" Zelle MacLeod (7 August 1876 15 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Frisian exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy and executed by firing squad in France under charges of espionage for Germany during World War I. Pat Shipman is the author of eight previous books, including The Man Who Found the Missing Link and Taking Wing, which won the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for science and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and named a New York Times Notable Book for 1998. Her numerous awards and honors include the 1996 Rhone-Poulenc Prize for The Wisdom of the Bones (written with Alan Walker). Her most recent book is To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa. She is currently an adjunct professor of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University and lives in State College, Pennsylvania.
Synopsis
In 1917, the notorious Oriental dancer Mata Hari was arrested on the charge of espionage; less than one year later she was tried and executed—charged with the deaths of at least 50,000 gallant French soldiers. The mistress of many senior Allied officers and government officials, even the French minister of war, she had a sharp intellect and a golden tongue fluent in several languages; she also traveled widely throughout wartorn Europe, with seeming disregard for the political and strategic alliances and borders. But was she actually a spy? In this persuasive new biography, Pat Shipman explores the life and times of the mythic and deeply misunderstood dark-eyed siren to find the truth.Her blissful Dutch childhood as Margaretha Zelle ended abruptly with her parents' emotionally scarring divorce and, shortly after, her mother's death. Shuttled off to reluctant relations, Margaretha impulsively married a much older man, who gave her syphilis (then incurable) and took her to the Dutch East Indies, where the unhappy marriage exploded into vicious hatred following the death of their oldest child. Fleeing her tragic marriage, she reinvented herself as Mata Hari, a scandalously sensual dancer with an Indies name and an Indies aura about her novel "artistic" dances.Mata Hari's life reads like both an action-packed adventure tale and passionate, poignant romance. Shipman reveals new information about this beautiful, brilliant, and dangerous woman, tracing the web of connections between her professional and personal lives. Once called "an orchid in a field of dandelions," Mata Hari was one of a kind, a rich and multifaceted personality whose ambitions and talents propelled her breathtaking rise—and her tragic fall.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 70076
- Title
- Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari
- Author
- Shipman, Pat
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0060817283
- ISBN 13
- 9780060817282
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Espionage, Edouard Clunet, Pierre Bouchardon, de Massloff, Joseph Denvignes, Jean Hallaure, Arnold Kalle, Rudolf MacLeod, Adam Zelle, van der Capellan
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