The Desert and the Sown: The Syrian Adventures of the Female Lawrence of Arabia by Rosemary O'Brien, Gertrude Bell

The Desert and the Sown: The Syrian Adventures of the Female Lawrence of Arabia

Rosemary O'Brien, Gertrude Bell

368 pages • first pub 1907 (editions)

nonfiction biography history travel informative reflective slow-paced
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A seeming contradiction, Gertrude Bell was both a proper Victorian and an intrepid explorer of the Arabian wilderness. She was a close friend of T. E. Lawrence, and played an important role in creating the modern map of the Middle East after World...

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