Gertrude Bell: 18 books

Gertrude Bell, happily for her family and friends, was one of the people whose lives can be reconstructed from correspondence. Through all her wanderings, whether far or near, she kept in the closest touch with her home, always anxious to share her experiences and impressions with her family, to chronicle...

Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, archaeologist and spy who explored, mapped, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making due to her skill and contacts, built up through extensive...

Begeistert von ihrer Fahrt zu den Wüsten und Kulturstätten Syriens gibt Gertrude Bell im Jahr 1907 das Buch "The Desert and the Sown" heraus. 1908 erscheint das Buch erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung und wird zum Klassiker der Reiseliteratur. Promedia ediert es im Jahr 1991 neu. 2015...

When Gertrude Bell’s uncle was appointed Minister in Tehran in 1891, she declared that the great ambition of her life was to visit Persia. Several months later, she did. And so began a lifetime of travel and a lifelong enchantment with what she saw as the romance of the East, which evolved into...

Archeologa e agente segreto britannico, Gertrude Bell fu anche una scrittrice raffinata e una delle più autorevoli orientaliste dell’Ottocento. Nel 1892, a ventiquattro anni, lasciò Oxford per intraprendere un viaggio in Persia. Ritratti persiani nacque come un personale diario di viaggio, una...

Born to transcend the social constraints of Victorian England, Gertrude Bell left the comforts of her privileged life for the unconventional — but thrilling — world of the Middle East. One of the first women to graduate from Oxford, she traveled to Persia and became passionately drawn to the Arab...

A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the PBS documentary Letters from Baghdad, voiced by Tilda Swinton, and the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert Pattinson and directed by Werner Herzog Gertrude...

A seeming contradiction, Gertrude Bell was both a proper Victorian and an intrepid explorer of the Arabian wilderness. She was a close friend of T. E. Lawrence, and played an important role in creating the modern map of the Middle East after World War I. The Desert and the Sown is a chronicle, illustrated...

'Her remarkable intellectual abilities and masculine demeanour make Persian Pictures, her first publication on an Eastern subject , all the more interesting.' - Geoffrey Nash When Gertrude Bell's uncle was appointed Minister in Tehran in 1891, she declared that the great ambition of her life...

Extracts from two of Bell’s most compelling works of travel writing, Persian Pictures and Syria: The Desert and the Sown, as well as some of her most fascinating letters A woman far ahead of her time, Gertrude gained a first from Oxford at a time when very few subjects were even open to women....

Als Gertrude Bell im Januar 1905 zu einer ihrer Reisen in den Nahen Osten aufbrach, wollte sie dort vor allem byzantinische und römische Ruinen studieren. Wie sich später herausstellen sollte, traf sie damit die Vorbereitungen für ihre spätere Mission als Beraterin der englischen Regierung, bei...

Example Story in this ebook AN EASTERN CITY The modern capital of Persia lies in a plain ringed half-way round by mountains, which on the northern side touch with frozen summits the regions of eternal snow, and on the east sink into low ranges of hills, stretching their naked arms...

Discover How Hafiz’s Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own Hafiz is known throughout the world as Persia’s greatest poet, with sales of his poems in Iran today only surpassed by those of the Qur’an itself. His probing and joyful verse speaks to people from all backgrounds who...

A fascinating look at the politics of the Arab world in the 1920’s. These were originally Confidential Information Despatches for General Headquarters (in England) written by Gertrude Bell which were gathered and printed in the 1940’s.