Gertrude bell

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The Englishwoman Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life. She rode with bandits, braved desert shamals and was captured by Bedouins. This volume of three of her notebooks preserves Bell's elegant, vibrant prose and presents Bell as a brilliant tactician fearlessly confronting her vulnerabilities.



The Englishwoman Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life. Her adventures are the stuff of novels: she rode with bandits; braved desert shamals; was captured by Bedouins; and sojourned in a harem. Called the most powerful woman in the British empire, she counselled kings and prime ministers. Bell's colleagues included Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, who in 1921 invited Bell - the only woman whose advice was sought - to the Cairo Conference to ""determine the future of Mesopotamia"". Bell numbered among her closest friends T.E. Lawrence, St. John Philby and Arabian sheiks. In this volume of three of her notebooks, Rosemary O'Brien preserves Bell's elegant, vibrant prose and presents Bell as a brilliant tactician fearlessly confronting her own vulnerability. The fundamental themes of her life - reckless behaviour; a divided self which combined brilliance of intellect with a passionate nature; a sense of history; and the fatal gift of falling in love with a married man - are all here in remarkable detail. Her journey to northern Arabia in 1914 earned Bell professional recognition from the Royal Geographical Society, and solidified her reputation as a canny political analyst of Middle Eastern affairs. In addition to Bell's own photographs, O'Brien has provided us an unprecedented first access to excerpts of the Bell/Richard Doughty-Wylie love letters, the married British army officer with whom she was in love and for whom her diaries were written.

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Gertrude Bell

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A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical importshe has been called the female lawrence of arabia which while not inaccurate fails to give gertrude bell her due she was at one time the most powerful woman in the british empire a nation builder the driving force behind the cre Uiterlijk 3 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

Mesopotamië

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in zijn daverende epische roman mesopotami geeft olivier guez gertrude bell de ruimte die ze verdient de volkskrant een meeslepende en epische historische roman over het leven van gertrude bell een ten onrechte bijna vergeten vrouw die na de eerste wereldoorlog een cruciale rol speelde in Op voorraad. Voor 23:00 uur besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

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Taal: en

Uitvoering: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 30 oktober 2000

Aantal pagina's: 258

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Rosemary O'Brien

Tweede Auteur: Rosemary O'Brien

Co Auteur: Rosemary O'Brien

Hoofdredacteur: Rosemary O'Brien

Hoofduitgeverij: Syracuse University Press

Fabrikantgegevens: De informatie van de fabrikant is momenteel niet beschikbaar.

Editie: illustrated edition

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 152 mm

Product hoogte: 32 mm

Product lengte: 229 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 195 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 23 mm

Verpakking lengte: 243 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 862 g

EAN: 9780815606727

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