Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (1868-1926) was an English writer, political officer, traveller, archaeologist, and administrator. She became an important policy-maker in the British Empire as a result of her extensive knowledge and contacts, which she built up through her numerous travels in Mesopotamia, Greater Syria, Asia Minor, and Arabia. Contents include: Tell Ahmar To Buseirah , Buseirah To Hit , The Parthian Stations Of Isidorus Of Charax , Hit To Kerbela , The Palace Of Ukheidir , Kerbela To Baghdad , Baghdad To Mosul , The Ruins Of Samarra , Mosul To Zakho , Zakho To Diyarbekr , Diyarbekr To Konia , etc. Other notable works by this author include: Poems from the Divan of Hafiz (1892), The Desert and the Sown (1907), and Mountains of the Servants of God (1910). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition with specially curated introductory material.