Gertrude Bell : queen of the desert, shaper of nations / Georgina Howell.
2008
DA566.9.B39 H69 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
Gertrude Bell : queen of the desert, shaper of nations / Georgina Howell.
Author
Howell, Georgina, 1942-
Uniform Title
Daughter of the desert
Edition
1st American paperback ed.
ISBN
9780374531355 (pbk.)
0374531358 (pbk.)
0374531358 (pbk.)
Publication Details
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Language
English
Description
xix, 481 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
DA566.9.B39 H69 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
956/.02092 B
Summary
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 her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, and mountaineer. She traveled the globe several times, but her passion was the desert--her vast knowledge of the region made her indispensable to the British government during World War I. As an army major on the front lines in Mesopotamia, 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.--From publisher description.
Note
"Originally published in 2006 by Macmillan, Great Britain, as Daughter of the desert. Pub. in 2007 in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus and Giroux."--T.p. verso.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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.