Desert queen : the extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell, adventurer, adviser to kings, ally of Lawrence of Arabia

Wallach, Janet, 1942- author.

Book 1996

Reared in the comfortable and privileged world of the "eminent Victorians," Gertrude Bell turned her back on convention and sought adventure in Arab lands. Traveling numerous times through the Syrian Desert and, at risk to her life, through the great Arabian desert of the Nejd - the last European to do so before the eruption of World War I - she wrote of her travels in widely acclaimed books. The trust she earned among the Arab sheikhs and chieft...

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ISBN:

9780385474085
0385474083

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xxv, 419 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-401) and index

Contents:

Part I. A Victorian.
Of great and honored stock
A man's world
An ill-fated marriage
Flight
First steps in the desert
A different challenge
The desert and the sown
Women's rights
Lawrence
Dick
Toward Hayil
Prisoner in Arabia
Rumblings of war
A tragic end
Escape to the East
A remarkably clever woman
Part II. The Khatun.
A messy situation
An independent woman
Baghdad
Disarray
Paris and the Arab question
The Arab mood
A change of thinking
Desert storms
A taste of England
The clash
An unpleasant victory
Cox returns
The Cairo Conference
Resistance
Faisal
The king
Ken
Farewell to Cox
Troubles
To sleep
Epilogue
The Hashemite Family of Sharif Hussein of Mecca

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95044868

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3311791

UPC:

780385474084

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