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- catalog abstract ""By the standards of any age, the life of Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was extraordinary. During her travels in the Middle East, she rode with bandits; was captured by Bedouins; and sojourned in a harem. Her colleagues and friends included Winston Churchill, T.E. Lawrence, and Arabian sheiks. During World War I she worked for British intelligence and later played a crucial role in creating the modern Middle East." "Bell's adventurous career belied her privileged upbringing and sharply contrasted with an era when the parlor and the nursery marked the expected, conventional boundaries of an Englishwoman's life. (Still, it would take Bell a dozen years to be recognized by, and admitted to, the patriarchal Royal Geographical Society.)" "Passionate about Arabia, then an inhospitable land of nomadic and warring tribes under Turkish control, she wrote this now classic account of her 1905 trip across the Syrian Desert from Jericho to Antioch. To read it is to be transported."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Syria, the desert and the sown".
- catalog contributor b12352732.
- catalog contributor b12352733.
- catalog coverage "Syria Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "Syria Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""By the standards of any age, the life of Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was extraordinary. During her travels in the Middle East, she rode with bandits; was captured by Bedouins; and sojourned in a harem. Her colleagues and friends included Winston Churchill, T.E. Lawrence, and Arabian sheiks. During World War I she worked for British intelligence and later played a crucial role in creating the modern Middle East." "Bell's adventurous career belied her privileged upbringing and sharply contrasted with an era when the parlor and the nursery marked the expected, conventional boundaries of an Englishwoman's life. (Still, it would take Bell a dozen years to be recognized by, and admitted to, the patriarchal Royal Geographical Society.)" "Passionate about Arabia, then an inhospitable land of nomadic and warring tribes under Turkish control, she wrote this now classic account of her 1905 trip across the Syrian Desert from Jericho to Antioch. To read it is to be transported."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages xvii-xviii) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxviii, 347 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Desert and the sown.".
- catalog identifier "0815411359 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Desert and the sown.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Cooper Square Press,".
- catalog relation "Desert and the sown.".
- catalog spatial "Syria Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Syria Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "915.69/104/3 21".
- catalog subject "DS94 .B42 2001".
- catalog title "Syria, the desert and the sown".
- catalog title "The desert and the sown : the Syrian adventures of the female Lawrence of Arabia / Gertrude Bell ; new introduction by Rosemary O'Brien ; with frontispiece by John Sargent.".
- catalog type "text".