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The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the PBS documentary Letters from Baghdad, voiced by Tilda Swinton, and th...
Includes Biography of Gertrude Bell
Gertrude Bell was an extraordinary woman who did what most women or men, even today, would dream of doing. Her travels opened doors to the Western wor...
Travels in Palestine and Syria
"The female Lawrence of Arabia," Gertrude Bell wrote captivating, perceptive accounts of her travels in the Middle East. This intriguing narrative, ac...
The Letters of Gertrude Bell is about English writer and traveler Gertrude Bell, who was a great asset to British policymakers due to her experiences ...
First published in 1929, this book contains volume I of "The Letters of Gertrude Bell". Contents include: "1897, Berlin", "1897-1899, Round The World,...
To understand contemporary Iraq and the ongoing crisis in the Middle East, no book provides a surer guide or more unsettling experience, written as it...
The Desert and the Sown
"You may rely upon one thing - I'll never engage in creating kings again; it's too great a strain."Gertrude Bell - traveller, scholar, archaeologist, ...
Blending photographs with descriptions of customs and communities, Bell's volume recounts a portion of her groundbreaking 1905 expedition across Syria...
From the Mountains to the Sea
"Are we the same, I wonder, when all our surroundings, association, acquaintances are changed? I conclude that it is not the person who danced with yo...
Extracts from two of Bell's most compelling works of travel writing, Persian Pictures and Syria: The Desert and the Sown, as well as some of her most ...
Amurath to Amurath is the recollections of archaeologist Gertrude Bell's travels throughout the middle east during the early 20th century. Amurath to ...
With a Map
Written by the legendary adventurer and archaeologist Gertrude Bell, this book is a fascinating account of her travels through Syria in the early 20th...
Confidential Information for General Headquarters from Getrude Bell, Being Despatches from the Secret "Arab Bulletin."
Traveller, archaeologist, mountaineer and diplomat, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) poured her extraordinary talents into a series of adventures through Eur...
Gertrude Bell's 1907 work Syria, The Desert and the Sown is travel literature of the highest order. She wanted to tell the stories of the people she m...
Published in 1909 and long out of print, The Thousand and One Churches remains a seminal study of the postclassical monuments of Anatolia. Now a new g...
A fascinating look at the politics of the Arab world in the 1920โs. These were originally Confidential Information Despatches for General Headquarte...
A Journey Along the Banks of the Euphrates
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is i...
Persian Pictures
The Desert & the Sown. With Many Illustrations and a Map
When I was pursuing along the banks of the Euphrates the leisurely course of oriental travel, I would sometimes wonder, sitting at night before my ten...
The Desert & the Sown
The Desert and the Sown, with Many Illustrations and a Map
Hardcover reprint of the original 1919 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments h...
Large Print
To those bred under an elaborate social order few such moments of exhilaration can come as that which stands at the threshold of wild travel. The gate...
One very determined woman incontestably held her own and more with the great figures of the Middle East in the early twentieth century. That was Gertr...
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (14 July 1868 โ 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, archaeologist...