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Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xlv, 272 pages : maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia. One of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century and the chief architect of British policy in the Middle East after World War I, Gertrude Bell turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford and travel the world. Mountaineer, archaeologist, Arabist, writer, poet, linguist, and spy, she dedicated her life to championing the Arab cause and was instrumental in drawing the...
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