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Gertrude Bell - The Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914 (Paperback)
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Gertrude Bell - The Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914 (Paperback)
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List price R698
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Discovery Miles 5 860
You Save R112 (16%)
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The Englishwoman Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life. Her
adventures are the stuff of novels: she rode with bandits; braved
desert shamals; was captured by Bedouins; and sojourned in a harem.
Called the most powerful woman in the British Empire, she counseled
kings and prime ministers. Bell's colleagues included Lloyd George
and Winston Churchill, who in 1921 invited Bell - the only woman
whose advice was sought - to the Cairo Conference to "determine the
future of Mesopotamia." Bell numbered among her closest friends
T.E. Lawrence, St. John Philby, and Arabian sheiks. In this volume
of three of her notebooks, Rosemary O'Brien preserves Bell's
elegant, vibrant prose, and presents Bell as a brilliant tactician
fearlessly confronting her own vulnerability. The fundamental
themes of her life - reckless behavior; a divided self which
combined brilliance of intellect with a passionate nature; a sense
of history; and the fatal gift of falling in love with a married
man - are all here in remarkable detail. Her journey to northern
Arabia in 1914 earned Bell professional recognition from the Royal
Geographical Society, and solidified her reputation as a canny
political analyst of Middle Eastern affairs. In addition to Bell's
own photographs, O'Brien has provided us an unprecedented first
access to excerpts of the Bell/Richard Doughty-Wyllie love letters,
the married British army officer with whom she was in love and for
whom her diaries were written.
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