Queen of the desert : the extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell by Howell, Georgina, 1942- author instant download

Queen of the desert : the extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell by Howell, Georgina, 1942- author instant download

xvii, 518 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : 20 cm, 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, Originally published: Macmillan, 2006, Gertrude and Florence -- Education -- The civilized woman -- Becoming a person -- Mountaineering -- Desert travel -- Dick Doughty-Wylie -- Limit of endurance -- Escape -- War work -- Cairo, Delhi, Basra -- Government through Gertrude -- Anger -- Faisal -- Coronation -- Staying and leaving, Includes bibliographical references (pages [476]-484) and index