@article{745125,
      note = {Includes index.},
      author = {Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, and Howell, Georgina,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/745125},
      title = {A woman in Arabia : the writings of the Queen of the  Desert /},
      abstract = {"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 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."--Back cover.},
      recid = {745125},
      pages = {xlv, 272 pages :},
}