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

Daughter of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell

Georgina Howell

560 pages 1988

10 editions

nonfiction biography history travel informative reflective slow-paced
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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, becom...

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