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ISBN10: 0374531358, ISBN13: 9780374531355, [publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux] Softcover First printing. Light general wear. 2008 Trade Paperback. xix, 481 pp. 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 ...
ISBN10: 0374531358, ISBN13: 9780374531355, [publisher: Sarah Crichton Books, United States] Softcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. [Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2008]
Sarah Crichton Books. As New with No dust jacket as issued. Date: 2008. Softcover. 0374531358 . Very nice softcover; 137.16 X 1.45 X 8.25 inches; 528 pages . 2008. Sarah Crichton Books ISBN 0374531358 9780374531355 [US]
ISBN10: 0374531358, ISBN13: 9780374531355, [publisher: Sarah Crichton Books] Softcover signs of little wear on the cover. [Bensalem, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]
ISBN10: 0374531358, ISBN13: 9780374531355, [publisher: Sarah Crichton Books] Softcover Book is in NEW condition. [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]
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ISBN10: 0374531358, ISBN13: 9780374531355, [publisher: Sarah Crichton Books] Softcover New. Fast Shipping and good customer service [Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]
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ISBN10: 0374531358, ISBN13: 9780374531355, [publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux] Softcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. [Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]
ISBN10: 0374531358, ISBN13: 9780374531355, [publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux] Softcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. [Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2008]
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