04404cam a2201057 4500 545497896 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307744364 0307744361 B004BLK7HU Amazon b2fe911e-6a31-4096-b57e-d4a7c1e2b11f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 185144 185144 185144 480092 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Wallach, Janet. Desert Queen [Libby]. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010. reading. Book. Iraq. War. of. Lawrence. Empire. WWI. British. Baghdad. East. autobiographies. Colonialism. Justice. Middle. twentieth. Egypt. world. World History. From. Autobiography. The. Memoirs. women. lover. Lovers. England. century. ww1. Queen. gifts. feminism. biographies. Letters. librarian. One. Bell. History. Desert. Arabia. I. gertrude bell. biographies and memoirs. Queen of the Desert. Gertrude. history books. political books. women in history. books for women. bookish. inspirational books for women. E. Letters from Baghdad. T. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 5276kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. History. Politics. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>This “richly textured biography” (<i>Chicago Tribune</i>) inspired the mesmerizing documentary, <i>Letters from Baghdad</i>, soon to air on public television.</b><br /> <br /> Here is the story of Gertrude Bell, who explored, mapped, and excavated the Arab world throughout the early twentieth century. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders, and her connections and information provided the brains to match T. E. Lawrence's brawn. After the war, she played a major role in creating the modern Middle East and was, at the time, considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire.<br /> &#160;<br /> In this masterful biography, Janet Wallach shows us the woman behind these achievements–a woman whose passion and defiant independence were at odds with the confined and custom-bound England she left behind. Too long eclipsed by Lawrence, Gertrude Bell emerges at last in her own right as a vital player on the stage of modern history, and as a woman whose life was both a heartbreaking story and a grand adventure.<br /> <br /></p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/B2F/E91/1E/DesertQueen9780307744364.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B2FE911E-6A31-4096-B57E-D4A7C1E2B11F&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/B2F/E91/1E/DesertQueen9780307744364.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B2FE911E-6A31-4096-B57E-D4A7C1E2B11F&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/B2F/E91/1E/DesertQueen9780307744364.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B2FE911E-6A31-4096-B57E-D4A7C1E2B11F&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)