Desert queen : the extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell, adventurer, adviser to kings, ally of Lawrence of Arabia
(2005)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/BELL,G
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Anchor Books, 2005
EDITION
Anchor Books edition
DESCRIPTION
xxii, 425 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
1400096197, 9781400096190
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
A Victorian -- Of great and honored stock -- A man's world -- An ill-fated marriage -- Flight -- First steps in the desert -- A different challenge -- The desert and the sown -- Women's rights -- Lawrence -- Dick -- Toward Hayil -- Prisoner in Arabia -- Rumblings of war -- A tragic end -- Escape to the East -- A remarkably clever women -- A messy situation -- An independent woman -- Baghdad -- Disarray -- Paris and the Arab question -- The Arab mood -- A change of thinking -- Desert storms -- A taste of England -- The clash -- An unpleasant victory -- Cox returns -- The Cairo Conference -- Resistance -- Faisal -- The King -- Ken -- Farewell to Cox -- Troubles -- To sleep