Daughter of the desert

Hardcover • 2006 • English

Daughter of the desert: the remarkable life of Gertrude Bell

By Georgina HOWELL

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About the book

At a time when women were still largely excluded from both education and the workplace, Gertrude Bell was an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer and mountaineer - but until the Iraq War of 2003 few people had heard her name. During the course of her extraordinary life she not only abandoned her privileged background of country house parties and debutante balls to become one of the first women to graduate from Oxford; she also travelled into the desert as an archaeol...Show more

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ISBN

9781405045872

Publisher

Macmillan

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

Daughter of the desert

Format

Hardcover

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