First published in 1929, this book contains volume I of The Letters of Gertrude Bell . Contents include: 1897, Berlin , 1897-1899, Round The World, Dauphina, Etc. , 1899-1900, Jerusalem And The First Desert Journeys , 1900, Desert Excursions From Jerusalem , 1901-1902, Switzerland, Syria, England , 1902-1903, Round The World For The Second Time , 1903-1909, England, Switzerland, Paris , etc. A fascinating insight into the life and mind of a woman who played a major role in establishing administering the modern state of Iraq. 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. 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.