This biography of one of the nineteenth century's most dazzling women is also a dramatic and exciting historical story set against a background of glittering cities and filled with a cast of fascinating characters. Jane Digby, born in 1807, was the daughter of a respected English noble family. At seventeen she married Lord Ellenborough (later the British Viceroy of India), but after just four years she left him for an Austrian prince -- a separation that led to one of England's most scandalous divorce cases. That relationship was not to last long, however. From her prince Jane went on to the court of King Ludwig of Bavaria. Next she married a baron in Ludwig's court, only to leave him for a Greek count and, later, an Albanian brigand. In her forties she settled at last in a long and satisfying marriage to a Bedouin Sheik living half the year in Damascus and half the year in the desert. There she could be seen astride her horse following her husband into battle in his many tribal wars. A woman of talent, with great beauty and an unquenchable thirst for love and adventure, Jane Digby more than overcame the scandal associated with her name, and by the time of her death at the age of 74 she was a living legend. Jane's exciting story takes place in some of the most colorful settings imaginable -- London during the reign of the profligate George IV; Paris as the Bourbon kings made their last attempts to prevail and as Honore? de Balzac was writing about and living the glittering highlife; Munich, the seat of the Bavarian throne, as it grew into one of the great centers of European culture; Athens, the sun-baked backwater capital on the margins of Europe; exotic Damascus; the burning desert of Syria. And the characters match the settings, as the lives of figures such as Sir Richard Burton, explorer of the Nile and translator of the Arabian Nights, touch, on Jane's great adventure.