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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100385474083
ISBN-139780385474085
eBay Product ID (ePID)148595
Product Key Features
Book TitleDesert Queen : The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1996
TopicWomen, Asia / General, Essays & Travelogues, Political, Middle East / General
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorJanet Wallach
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight30.5 Oz
Item Length9.8 in
Item Width6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN95-044868
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal956/.02/092 B
SynopsisTurning her back on her privileged life in Victorian England, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), fired by her innate curiosity, journeyed the world and became fascinated with all things Arab. Traveling the length and breadth of the Arab region, armed with a love for its language and its people, she not only produced several enormously popular books based on her experiences but became instrumental to the British foreign office. When World War I erupted, and the British needed the loyalty of the Arab leaders, it was Gertrude Bell's work and connections that helped provided the brain for T. E. Lawrence's military brawn. After the war she participated in both the Paris and Cairo conferences, played a major role in creating the modern Middle East, and was generally considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire. In this incident-packed biography, Janet Wallach reveals a woman whose achievements and independent spirit were especially remarkable for her times, and who brought the same passion and intensity to her explorations as she did to her rich romantic life. Too long eclipsed by Lawrence's fame, Gertrude Bell emerges in this first major biography as a woman whose accomplishments rank as crucial to world history (especially in light of the continuing geopolitical importance of the Middle East) and whose life was a grand adventure.
LC Classification NumberDS61.7.B37W35 1995
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- 27. Aug. 2017
A fascinating story.
I leaned of this woman due to recent film "Letters from Bagdad". I have been fascinated by the story of T. E. Lawrence and if you are also, you love this book. A contemporary of Lawrence and in the same mold. Brilliant, inquiring, brave, successful, rich...what more can I say. The author really captures this character and her story in a way it makes the book hard to put down.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 20. Apr. 2019
Great Story
The unfortunately little know story of a lady that influenced the Middle East tremendously. If the European men around her had paid more attention to how she operated and followed her advise I think the Middle East would be quite different today.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
