About this title: The story of Gertrude Bell, who went to Teheran to visit her uncle, the British envoy, and fell in love with the Middle East. The first woman to earn a first-class degree in modern history at Oxford, she went on to play an influential role in the making of post-World War I Iraq, where she was secretary to the British High Commission. She also had a hand in many of T. E. Lawrence's military successes.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780385495752ISBN:0385495757
Description: Very Good+ The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell Adventurer, Advisor to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia. 419 pp. Slight turn to lower corner. Light edgewear overall. Name inside. Faint age tone to page edges, otherwise clean and unmarked. Gently used. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781400096190ISBN:1400096197
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Shows some wear on the edges of the book. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 425 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Fine. Trade Paperback. Anchor, 1999. Fine Book. Aside from light toning to book, overall a clean and tight, lightly read copy. Media mail packed in protective bubble lined shipping bags, Priority in a Flat Rate Envelope. Shipped quickly. Prompt response to questions. read more
Description: Fine. Trade Paperback. Anchor Books, 2005. Fine Book. Overall, a clean and tight, lightly read copy. Media mail packed in protective bubble lined shipping bags, Priority in a Flat Rate Envelope. Shipped quickly. Prompt response to questions. read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor extremity wear, creasing on back wrapper. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 419 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. The definitive biography of Gertrude Bell, Iraq's Uncrowned Queen; A major figure in the creation of modern-day Iraq. read more
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. tight clean, bright shiny cover, very very slightest of corner curls. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 464 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Anchor Books
Date Published: 2005-07-12
ISBN-13:9781400096190ISBN:1400096197
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"Gertrude Bell was one of the handful of British civil authorities who decided how Mesopotamia was to be divvied up after the First World War. She was a brilliant scholar and linguist who fell in love with Iraq and lived there for many years. In part because she was a woman, she was greeted across the desert tribes with the height of gallant Arab hospitality, and came to know the chieftains better than any of her male colleagues. She was a fluent speaker of several tribal dialects, which was also of great benefit to her, of course. It's heart-rending to read her analysis of the difficulty of trying to unite the desert fiefdoms into a single nation. In fact, if you replace a few of the nouns here and there with their modern counterparts, her words could have been written yesterday. As a woman, she makes a fascinating topic: prim Victorian woman who became a great political force. Her private story is very touching."
"Unfortunately, this book about a very interesting woman who certainly played a big part in the arena of the Middle East, was written by someone who needed a good editor! Lots of inconquential details of her day to day life took energy and attention away from the reader.Her admirable striving to get to know the Arab world and to contribute to some sort of peace would have been enough . Reads much more like a history text book and a tedious journal. Notwithstanding, one does learn a miriad of facts about the Arab world and helps to understand the strife that is present today in this part of the world."
"I am still not sure whether I loved this book. It was very interesting -I loved the character, but at the same time it didn't have much action and took me forever to read. The writing felt a bit like old school history book style to me. It didn't even have that many pictures, and I so love the old portraits... But then again - I couldn't just abandon it. Kept thinking about the life of this amazing woman and the fact that the issues in the region are still the same, which makes the story timeless, I guess. Recommend it to anyone interested in historical biographies in general and history of Arabian people in particular."
"This excellent, highly detailed biography of Gertrude Bell should be read by everyone who wants to gain a thorough understanding of the middle east. Not just read, but closely paid attention to. Even though Gertrude Bell's time was a century ago, the cultural and political dynamics portrayed in this biography are still very much in existence. Highly recommended."
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