Queen of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell by Georgina Howell

Queen of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell

Georgina Howell

518 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction biography history travel adventurous reflective slow-paced

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A biography of the woman who, indirectly, was the catalyst for many of the troubles in the Middle East, including the Gulf War. In 1918, Gertrude Bell drew the region's proposed boundaries on a piece of tracing paper. Her qualifications for doing ...

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