Daughter of the Desert. The Story of Gertrude Bell

Octavo Size [approx 14x21cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ is price-clipped & now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. Neat gift inscription to front free endpaper. Some mild offsetting to endpaper. Preface by Lieut-General Sir John Glubb, K.B.E. Foreword by Lady Richmond. B/w map. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 192 pages. Gertrude Bell CBE was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist. She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle East, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making as an Arabist due to her knowledge and contacts built up through extensive travels. During her lifetime, she was highly esteemed and trusted by British officials and she participated in both the 1919 Paris Peace Conference (briefly) and the 1921 Cairo Conference, which helped decide the territorial boundaries and governments of the post-War Middle East as part of the partition of the Ottoman Empire.

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Publisher: The Bodley Head

Year: 1956

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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