Desert Queen

Desert Queen Is The Untold Story Of Gertrude Bell ,A Woman As Vital To The History Of The Middle East As Her Friend And Colleague , Lawrence Of Arabia. The Boards Binding ,Text Block Are All Square Tight And Clean. The Price Includes 2Nd Class Postage Uk Only.

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Subtitled Adventurer, adviser to kings, ally of Lawrence of Arabia', this book easily could be a work of fiction. In it, Janet Wallach describes the life of Gertrude Bell, a lone Victorian woman travelling the Arabian sands with no-one but local guides, conversing with powerful sheikhs and chieftains, exploring and recording antiquities, playing a vital role for the British in World War I, and a friend and muse of T E Lawrence. Later referred to as the Desert Queen', the unofficial queen of Iraq, she was an important figure in bringing stability to post-war Iraq and for this reason her name has resurfaced recently as, once more, the world tries to do the same. This book, revised in 2004 and now in paperback, tells of Bell's background and more especially her life in the Middle East, the people she met and influenced and her legacy for the country, including her foundation of the Baghdad Museum.

Product Info

ISBN: 0753802473

ISBN-13: 9780753802472

Publisher: Phoenix

Year: 2003

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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