Tales from the Queen of the Desert - by Gertrude Bell (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"A keen traveller and explorer, Gertrude Bell led an extraordinary life that took her all over the Middle East. Having grown up in England, her lifelong fascination with the region began when she visited her uncle in Persia in 1892. Fierccely independent and well ahead of her time, Bell would go on to travel alone throughout the Middle East, getting recruited to work for British Intelligence during the First World War and later becoming an advisor to the King of Iraq. She campaigned tirelessly for women's right to an education, set up the Museum of Iraq and received an CBE her diplomatic work. Bell also penned two acclaimed books of travel writing, from which the current volume comes. Persian Pictures and Syria: The Desert and the Sown reveal her deep-rooted fascination with the people, culture and history of the Middle East, and her personal insights into their way of life. The Hollywood film Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, Damian Lewis and Robert Pattinson, is based on the life and travels of Gertrude Bell"--Front flap.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Extracts from two of Bell's most compelling works of travel writing, <i>Persian Pictures</i> and <i>Syria: The Desert and the Sown</i>, as well as some of her most fascinating letters</b></p><p>A woman far ahead of her time, Gertrude gained a first from Oxford at a time when very few subjects were even open to women. She went on to take an active interest in politics before embarking on her one-woman travels across the Middle East. She chronicled her journeys through Iraq, Persia, Syria, and beyond and her important diplomatic work, with characteristic wit and incisiveness. Despite the many achievements of her working life, sadly her personal life was marred by losing the great love of her life, Major Charles Doughty-Wylie, from which she never recovered. She died in 1926 of an apparent overdose of sleeping pills. This is a unique collection of her work. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Gertrude Bell</b> (1868-1926) was an English writer, traveler, political officer, administrator, archaeologist, and spy who explored and mapped Greater Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Arabia. Along with T. E. Lawrence, Bell helped establish the Hashemite dynasties in what is today Jordan as well as in Iraq.
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