Traveller, archaeologist, mountaineer and diplomat, Gertrude Bell
(1868 1926) poured her extraordinary talents into a series of
adventures through Europe and the Middle East. Addressing her
experiences in Persia and Syria respectively, Safar Nameh (1894)
and The Desert and the Sown (1907) are both reissued in this
series. The present work, first published in 1911 and among Bell's
most acclaimed, describes her recent expedition to Mesopotamia. She
recounts her outward journey to the Abbasid palace of Ukhaidir and
her return via Baghdad and Asia Minor. Notably discussing changes
in the region after the rise of the Young Turks, including their
easing of restrictions throughout the declining Ottoman Empire,
Bell also saw this book as 'the attempt to record the daily life,
the speech of those who had inherited the empty ground where
empires had risen and expired'. Replete with photographs, it
vividly opens up Middle Eastern history and archaeology."
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