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Ianthe M. Dunbar
A little-known early 20th-century writer, she is remembered for a novel set against the Arabian desert and for a travel book on Paraguay. Her surviving bibliography suggests a taste for vivid places, movement, and adventure.
1 Audiobook
The Edge of the Desert
by Ianthe M. Dunbar
About the author
Ianthe M. Dunbar was a British writer whose known works include The Edge of the Desert and The Golden River; sport and travel in Paraguay. Surviving catalog and bookseller records point to her publishing in the early 1920s, with The Golden River appearing in 1922 and The Edge of the Desert in 1923.
Reliable biographical information about her is limited, but authority records connect the author name Ianthe M. Dunbar with Ianthe Margaret Dunbar. Genealogical reference sources identify Ianthe Margaret Dunbar as the daughter of Lt.-Col. Arbuthnott Pery Byng Sutherland Dunbar and Catharina Hester Orred, and note that she later married Sandbach Percy Harrison.
Because so little detailed information is readily documented, her books do most of the talking. Even from their titles alone, they suggest a writer drawn to travel, striking landscapes, and life at the edges of familiar society.