Daughter of the Desert: The Remarkable Life of Gertrude Bell by Georgina Howell

Daughter of the Desert: The Remarkable Life of Gertrude Bell

Georgina Howell

518 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction biography history travel informative reflective slow-paced
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At a time when women were still largely excluded from both education and the workplace, Gertrude Bell was an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer and mountaineer - but until the Iraq War of 2003 few people had heard he...

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