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DESERT QUEEN - The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia (Paperback, Revised edition)
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DESERT QUEEN - The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia (Paperback, Revised edition)
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Loot Price R552
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Turning away from the privileged world of the " eminent Victorians,
" Gertrude Bell (1868-- 1926) explored, mapped, and excavated the
world of the Arabs. Recruited by British intelligence during World
War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab
leaders, and her connections and information provided the brains to
match T. E. Lawrence's brawn. After the war, she played a major
role in creating the modern Middle East and was, at the time,
considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire.
In this masterful biography, Janet Wallach shows us the woman
behind these achievements- a woman whose passion and defiant
independence were at odds wit the confined and custom-bound England
she left behind. Too long eclipsed by Lawrence, Gertrude Bell
emerges at last in her own right as a vital player on the stage of
modern history, and as a woman whose life was both a heartbreaking
story and a grand adventure.
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