Bell of the Desert Bell of the Desert

Bell of the Desert

A Novel

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Publisher Description

A grand historical novel about Gertrude Bell, one of the most influential women of the twentieth century.

She was the most celebrated adventurer of her day, the brains behind Lawrence of Arabia, an adviser to kings and desert sheikhs, and the British government’s secret weapon in WWI in the campaign against the Turks. A brilliant academic, mountaineer, explorer, linguist, politician, and towering literary figure, Gertrude Bell is the most significant unsung heroine of the twentieth century.

Alan Gold’s meticulously researched novel accurately opens history’s pages on a peerless woman who broke all molds on how Victorian women were supposed to behave—socially, intellectually, and physically. Guiding the events of the day in open, sanctioned diplomacy and adventure all across the Middle East, her influence on the men at the vanguard of history, and her unparalleled skill in sculpting the pathways and influences of the English, French, and Arab allies on the region, all lead to perhaps her greatest achievement: single-handedly creating today’s Iraq. Told as a biographical narrative of history, Alan Gold reveals that, more than any other single figure, it was this extraordinary woman who most determinedly fashioned the Arab world as we know it today.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2014
November 18
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
464
Pages
PUBLISHER
Yucca
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
2.6
MB

Customer Reviews

kauai norm ,

Bell of the Desert

History and exploits of a woman I thought I was aware.
Reading this book was very informative about her life, the times she lived, the world around her.
New information!

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