Gertrude Bell Daughter Of The Desert
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Queen Of The Desert
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Author : Georgina Howell
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2015-01-15
Queen Of The Desert written by Georgina Howell and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-15 with History categories.
Queen of the Desert is the compelling story of Gertrude Bell, archaeologist, linguist, and author whose passion for the Arab peoples turned her into an architect of the independent kingdom of Iraq, a role driven by an unyielding spirit. Drawing heavily on Gertrude's personal diaries and letters, journalist Georgina Howell paints an intimate portrait of a Victorian woman who gave up her world of privilege and plenty to navigate the complex geopolitics of the Middle East. On the pages of Iraqi history, Gertrude Bell leaves an enduring, indelible mark, seeing its first king Faisal safely onto the throne in 1921. Originally published as Daugher of the Desert, Gertrude's powerful story is a compelling portrait of a woman who woman who transcended the restrictions of her class and age and in so doing created a remarkable and enduring legacy. Not all queens wear a crown, some carry a compass.
Gertrude Bell Daughter Of The Desert
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Author : Josephine Kamm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Gertrude Bell Daughter Of The Desert written by Josephine Kamm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with categories.
"The biography of the English woman who was a mountaineer, archaeologist, and world diplomat and who first mapped what is now Iraq." - Retail Bookseller.
Daughter Of The Desert The Story Of Gertrude Bell Etc With Plates Including Portraits
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Author : Josephine Kamm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Daughter Of The Desert The Story Of Gertrude Bell Etc With Plates Including Portraits written by Josephine Kamm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with categories.
Daughter Of The Desert
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Author : Josephine Kamm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Daughter Of The Desert written by Josephine Kamm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Colonial administrators categories.
Gertrude Bell
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Author : Georgina Howell
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2010-04-01
Gertrude Bell written by Georgina Howell and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import 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 in 1868 into a world of privilege, Bell turned her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author (of Persian Pictures, The Desert and the Sown, and many other collections), poet, photographer, and legendary mountaineer (she took off her skirt and climbed the Alps in her underclothes). She traveled the globe several times, but her passion was the desert, where she traveled with only her guns and her servants. Her vast knowledge of the region made her indispensable to the Cairo Intelligence Office of the British government during World War I. She advised the Viceroy of India; then, as an army major, she traveled to the front lines in Mesopotamia. There, she supported the creation of an autonomous Arab nation for Iraq, promoting and manipulating the election of King Faisal to the throne and helping to draw the borders of the fledgling state. Gertrude Bell, vividly told and impeccably researched by Georgina Howell, is a richly compelling portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class and times, and in so doing, created a remarkable and enduring legacy. " ... there’s never a dull moment in the peerless life of this trailblazing character." - Kirkus Reviews
Desert Queen
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Author : Janet Wallach
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-11-12
Desert Queen written by Janet Wallach and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The life of Gertrude Bell is now the subject of the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco and Damian Lewis Turning away from privileged Victorian Britain, Gertrude Bell explored, mapped and excavated the world of the Arabs, winning the trust of Arab sheiks and chieftains along the way. When the First World War erupted and the British needed the loyalty of Arab leaders, Gertrude Bell provided the intelligence for T.E. Lawrence's military activities. After the war, she played a major role in creating the modern Middle East, and was generally considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire. In this major reassessment of Bell's life, Janet Wallach reveals a woman whose achievements and independent spirit were especially remarkable for her times, and who brought the same passion and intensity to her explorations as she did to her rich and romantic life.
Daughter Of The Desert
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Author : Georgina Howell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Daughter Of The Desert written by Georgina Howell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Arabists categories.
Archaeologist, spy, Arabist, author, linguist, photographer, mountaineer and nation builder, Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty. Frustrated by conventional life her passion became the desert and its people. She developed a relationship with the Cairo Intelligence Office and the Viceroy of India, in Delhi. She was instrumental in the creation of Iraq and King Faisal's election who prospered for over thirty years. She was a remarkable woman who created an enduring legacy.
Tales From The Queen Of The Desert
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Author : Gertrude Bell
language : en
Publisher: Hesperus Press
Release Date : 2015-04-01
Tales From The Queen Of The Desert written by Gertrude Bell and has been published by Hesperus Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Extracts from two of Bell's most compelling works of travel writing, Persian Pictures and Syria: The Desert and the Sown, as well as some of her most fascinating letters A woman far ahead of her time, Gertrude gained a first from Oxford at a time when very few subjects were even open to women. She went on to take an active interest in politics before embarking on her one-woman travels across the Middle East. She chronicled her journeys through Iraq, Persia, Syria, and beyond and her important diplomatic work, with characteristic wit and incisiveness. Despite the many achievements of her working life, sadly her personal life was marred by losing the great love of her life, Major Charles Doughty-Wylie, from which she never recovered. She died in 1926 of an apparent overdose of sleeping pills. This is a unique collection of her work.
The Desert And The Sown
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Author : Gertrude Lowthian Bell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-10-28
The Desert And The Sown written by Gertrude Lowthian Bell and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-28 with History categories.
Blending photographs with descriptions of customs and communities, Bell's volume recounts a portion of her groundbreaking 1905 expedition across Syria.
A Woman In Arabia
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Author : Gertrude Bell
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2015-08-11
A Woman In Arabia written by Gertrude Bell and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the PBS documentary Letters from Baghdad, voiced by Tilda Swinton, and the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert Pattinson and directed by Werner Herzog Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg. One of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century, she turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford and travel the world, and became the chief architect of British policy in the Middle East after World War I. Mountaineer, archaeologist, Arabist, writer, poet, linguist, and spy, she dedicated her life to championing the Arab cause and was instrumental in drawing the borders that define today’s Middle East. As she wrote in one of her letters, “It’s a bore being a woman when you are in Arabia.” Forthright and spirited, opinionated and playful, and deeply instructive about the Arab world, this volume brings together Bell’s letters, military dispatches, diary entries, and travel writings to offer an intimate look at a woman who shaped nations. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.