Tales from the Queen of the Desert [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Bell, Gertrude

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ISBN 10: 1843915472 ISBN 13: 9781843915478

Casa editrice: Hesperus Pr, 2015

Riassunto

Extracts from two of Bell’s most compelling works of travel writing, Persian Pictures andSyria: The Desert and the Sown, as well as some of her most fascinating letters

A woman far ahead of her time, Gertrude gained a first from Oxford at a time when very few subjects were even open to women. She went on to take an active interest in politics before embarking on her one-woman travels across the Middle East. She chronicled her journeys through Iraq, Persia, Syria, and beyond and her important diplomatic work, with characteristic wit and incisiveness. Despite the many achievements of her working life, sadly her personal life was marred by losing the great love of her life, Major Charles Doughty-Wylie, from which she never recovered. She died in 1926 of an apparent overdose of sleeping pills. This is a unique collection of her work.

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'I'm completely enraptured with her. She basically defined the borders between Iraq and Jordan that exist today' --Nicole Kidman

'Bell's achievement as a nation builder was extraordinary' The New York Times

'A gap-year adventurer ahead of her time, who preferred wandering the Arabian Desert to life as a debutante in Victorian London'
--Guardian

'Bell's achievement as a nation builder was extraordinary' The New York Times

'A gap-year adventurer ahead of her time, who preferred wandering the Arabian Desert to life as a debutante in Victorian London' Guardian

--Guardian

L'autore:

Gertrude Bell (1868–1926) was an English writer, traveler, political officer, administrator, archaeologist, and spy who explored and mapped Greater Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Arabia. Along with T. E. Lawrence, Bell helped establish the Hashemite dynasties in what is today Jordan as well as in Iraq.

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• Editore: Hesperus Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1843915472
• ISBN 13: 9781843915478
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 281