Daughter of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell - Brossura

Georgina Howell

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ISBN 10: 0330431579 ISBN 13: 9780330431576

Casa editrice: Pan, 2007

Riassunto

Archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, mountaineer and nation builder, Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty, but she turned her back on all that for her passion for the Arab peoples, becoming the architect of the independent kingdom of Iraq and seeing its first king Faisal safely onto the throne in 1921. Daughter of the Desert is her story, vividly told and impeccably researched, drawing on Gertrude's own writings, both published and unpublished. It is a compelling portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class and age and in so doing created a remarkable and enduring legacy. `What a great Oscar-laden biopic this will make ...the combination of epic scenes and personal drama makes Georgina Howell's saga a winner' Daily Express 'Howell sketches in the gradations of colour and emotion that have been lacking in hitherto monochrome accounts of Bell's life ... Exemplary' Sunday Times `Riveting ... few women have had a life more worth reading about.' Diana Athill, Literary Review

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Recensione:

A dramatic and detailed account of her formidable life...Howell fills the book with enlivening detail...A fluent, celebratory and conservative biography, skating over the injustices of imperialism and taking the kind of romantic approach that makes it read like a Hollywood script-in-waiting. --The Guardian

Howell's painstaking research does justice to Bell's political achievements but it is her detailed account of the young Gertrude, careering through the Arabian deserts, bearding sheikhs in their tents and bravely enduring the most extreme of conditions which enthrals. --The Irish Times

Descrizione del libro:

The acclaimed account of the life of a remarkable woman - Gertrude Bell, the female Lawrence of Arabia

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• Editore: Pan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0330431579
• ISBN 13: 9780330431576
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 356