DESERT QUEEN
The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
$29.92
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
12 July 2005
Summary
The definitive biography, mesmerizing and “richly textured ” , that inspired the acclaimed documentary, Letters from Baghdad. • With a new Afterword • “Desert Queen…plucks Gertrude Bell out of the shadow of Lawrence of Arabia.”
Here is the story of Gertrude Bell, who explored, mapped, and excavated the Arab world throughout the early twentieth century. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781400096190 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1400096197 |
| Author: | Janet Wallach |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 12 July 2005 |
| Weight: | 374g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 132mm x 203mm |
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Critics Review
“A major figure in the creation of modern-day Iraq.” Los Angeles Times
“A major figure in the creation of modern-day Iraq.” —Los Angeles Times
“Desert Queen, as timely as today’s headlines, plucks Gertrude Bell out of the shadow of Lawrence of Arabia.” —The Boston Globe
“Wallach has done an outstanding job of bringing Gertrude Bell to life.” —The Dallas Morning News
“A richly textured biography of a … woman who devoted her life to knowing the desert Arabs better, perhaps, than any other European of her day… . Wallach comfortably commands the tangled political and diplomatic history of the Middle East.” —Chicago Tribune
Janet Wallach
JANET WALLACH is the author of The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age, as well as Seraglio and Chanel: Her Style and Her Life. She is also coauthor, with her husband John Wallach, of three previous books on the Middle East: The New Palestinians; Arafat: In the Eyes of the Beholder; and Still Small Voices: The Real Heroes of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. She lives in New York City.
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