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A woman in Arabia : the writings of the Queen of the Desert

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text A woman in Arabia : the writings of the Queen of the Desert

Bell, Gertrude Lowthian

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"A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia. One of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century and the chief architect of British policy in the Middle East after World War I, Gertrude Bell turned her back on Victorian s... Read more
Contents

A woman in Arabia. The linguist ; The poet ; The "person" ; The mountaineer ; The archaeologist ; The desert traveler ; The lover ; The prisoner ; The war worker ; The intrusives ; The nation builder ; The kingmaker ; The courtier.

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xlv, 272 pages : maps ; 20 cm
Publisher
Penguin Books 2015
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Woodmere (Main Branch) 921 BELL, GERTRUDE BEL in Adult Non-fiction Available

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