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Liora Lukitz
A re-evaluation of the life and legacy of Gertude Bell in the Middle East.
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Susan Goodman
Talks about Gertrude Bell, who is remembered as a friend and colleague of T E Lawrence. She was an intrepid traveller, journeying alone through the deserts of the Middle East…
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Gertrude Bell
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Influential English archaeologist and traveler Gertrude Bell explored what is now the Middle East and played a significant role in the creation of modern Iraq. Historical facts, images, and high-interest…
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Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 - June 14, 1948) was an American author. Many of her novels are set in her home state of California. Her bestseller Black…
First published in 1929, this book contains volume II of Gertrude Bell’s Letters. Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was an English writer, political officer, traveller, archaeologist, and administrator. She became an…
First published in 1929, this book contains volume I of Gertrude Bell’s Letters. Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was an English writer, political officer, traveller, archaeologist, and administrator. She became an…
First published in 1919, Syria - The Desert and The Sown is an extensively-illustrated chronicle of Gertrude Bell’s 1905 trip from Jericho to Antioch, which was under the control of…
Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir - A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture is a 1914 work by Gertrude Bell that explores the origins and history of Islamic architecture. In this…
Title: True to the Prince. A tale of the sixteenth century, 1567-1575.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one…
Safar Nameh - Persian Pictures - A Book Of Travel is a 1894 account of Gertrude Bell’s trip to Persia to visit her uncle, Sir Frank Lascelles, who was British…
Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its…
Safar Nameh, Persian Pictures: A Book Of Travel by Gertrude Lowthian Bell has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is…
A new selection of inspiring writings from Gertrude Bell, a pioneering British diplomat, archaeologist and explorer of the Middle East, soon to be the basis of a major new film.
When Gertrude Bell’s uncle was appointed Minister in Tehran in 1891, she declared that the great ambition of her life was to visit Persia. Several months later, she did. And…
The female Lawrence of Arabia, Gertrude Bell wrote captivating, perceptive accounts of her travels in the Middle East. This intriguing narrative, accompanied by 160 photos, traces her 1905 sojourn in…
An extraordinary and invaluable portrait of Syria.
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell 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…
During World War I, Georgina Howell worked her way up from spy to army major to become one of the most powerful woman in the British Empire. After the defeat…
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This book of ‘Persian Pictures’ is the first published work of Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), the celebrated traveller, archaeologist, and Orientalist. These essays from 1894 capture a sense of delight at…
Traveller, archaeologist, mountaineer and diplomat, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) poured her extraordinary talents into a series of adventures through Europe and the Middle East. This acclaimed and highly illustrated account, published…
Gertrude Lowthian Bell
The Letters of Gertrude Bell V1-2 is a two-volume collection of letters written by Gertrude Lowthian Bell, a British archaeologist, writer, and political officer who played a significant role in…
Dale A. Johnson
This is a collection of summaries, diary entries and letters from the famed British explorer, Gertrude Bell who later went on to become an adviser to Winston Churchill and founded…
Sharla Race,Gertrude Bell
These quotations from Gertrude’s letters to her loved ones will enchant, enthral and inspire you as you travel with her over the year. The quotations are from her letters, mainly…
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 was for another war, another…
Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was a key figure in the setting up of the Iraqi state and monarchy after the First World War. Arabist, Persian speaker, scholar, and traveller, she was…
Ross E Denison
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Rosemary O'Brien
The Englishwoman Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life. She rode with bandits, braved desert shamals and was captured by Bedouins. This volume of three of her notebooks preserves Bell’s elegant…
Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life. Her adventures are the stuff of novels. Bell numbered among her friends T.E. Lawrence, St. John Philby, and Arabian sheiks. In this volume of…
Georgina Howell
The story of Gertrude Bell; archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, mountaineer and nation builder.
Gertrude Bell was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire and was the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. This work is a richly…
Gertrude Bell Browne
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Using previously unseen sources, including Gertude Bell’s own diaries and letters, Liora Lukitz provides a deeper political and personal biography of this influential character. A Quest in the Middle East…
Lisa Cooper
The extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell was marked by myriad achievements. Although best known for her desert travels and her part in the creation of the modern state of Iraq…
Hafez
E.G. Browne has commented: Bells translations are true poetry of a very high order and, with perhaps the single exception of FitzGeralds paraphrase of The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, are…
Fergus Mason
This biography tells the extraordinary story of one of the most adventurous and fascinating women you will ever encounter.
A series of brief essays on subjects relating to Mesopotamia, written during 1916, by persons with special knowledge of the subjects dealt with. –Preface.
