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2000. Middle East, exploration. Syracuse University Press. Very good - fine cloth and dust jacket 258p.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. The Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914, Bell, Gertrude; Rosemary O'Brien, editor. Published by Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, 2000. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 258pp. Illustrated with Bells own black and white photographs and map of her journey through the Syrian Desert. Blue cloth boards with gilt spine titles, red endpapers. Volume is in fine condition without markings, tears or folds; unclipped dustjacket has the lightest of shelf wear and is otherwise fine. The Englishwoman Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life. Her adventures are the stuff of novels: she rode with bandits; braved desert shamals; was captured by Bedouins; and sojourned in a harem. Called the most powerful woman in the British Empire, she counseled kings and prime ministers. Bells colleagues included Lloyd George and Winston Churchill and numbered among her closest friends were T.E. Lawrence, St. John Philby, and Arabian sheiks. This particular journey of Gertrude Bell by itself earned her professional recognition from the Royal Geographical Society, More, it solidified her reputation as a canny political analyst of Arabia just at the beginning of the War.…