Tales from the Queen of the Desert by Gertrude Bell

Tales from the Queen of the Desert by Gertrude Bell

Extracts from two of Bell's most compelling works of travel writing, Persian Pictures and Syria: The Desert and the Sown, as well as some of her most fascinating lettersA 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.

Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was a British intelligence officer, linguist, and adventurer. Bell's daring journeys into the Islamic realm of the Middle East in the late 1800s provided some of the first Western understandings of the culture and people of modern-day Iraq and Iran. Several experts still believe her translations of Hafiz's poems to be the most accurate of any in the English language.

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ISBN 13	9781843915478
ISBN 10	1843915472
Title	Tales from the Queen of the Desert
Author	Gertrude Bell
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hesperus Press Ltd
Year published	2015-02-13
Number of pages	304
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