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Gertrude Bell queen of the desert, shaper of nations

She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born into privilege in 1868, Bell turned...

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Main Author: Howell, Georgina, 1942-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Edition:1st American paperback ed.
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Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, > 1868-1926.
Women travelers > Middle East > Biography.
Women archaeologists > Great Britain > Biography.
Women Asianists > Biography.
Colonial administrators > Great Britain > Biography.
Colonial administrators > Middle East > Biography.
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Table of Contents:
  • Gertrude and Florence
  • Education
  • The civilized woman
  • Becoming a person
  • Mountaineering
  • Desert travel
  • Dick Doughty-Wylie
  • Limit of endurance
  • Escape
  • War work
  • Cairo, Delhi, Basra
  • Government through Gertrude
  • Anger
  • Faisal
  • Coronation
  • Staying and leaving.

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