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The Letters of Gertrude Bell - Volume One

The Letters of Gertrude Bell - Volume One

Bell, Gertrude

Paperback

Biographies GeneralLetters & EssaysGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 1528715667
ISBN13: 9781528715669
Publisher: Brilliant Women - Read & Co.
Published: Jun 4 2020
Pages: 422
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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