Janet Wallach: 3 books
by Janet Wallach
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
This “richly textured biography” (Chicago Tribune) inspired the mesmerizing documentary, Letters from Baghdad, soon to air on public television.
Here is the story of Gertrude Bell, who explored, mapped, and excavated the Arab world throughout the early twentieth century. Recruited by British...
The Richest Woman in America
Hetty Green in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
A captivating biography of America's first female tycoon, Hetty Green, the iconoclast who forged one of the greatest fortunes of her time.
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No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green. At the time of her death in 1916, she was worth at least 100 million dollars, equal...
Königin der Wüste
Das außergewöhnliche Leben der Gertrude Bell
Language: German
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Der weibliche Lawrence von Arabien: Gertrude Bell, die ungekrönte Königin des Orients, war eine der interessantesten, vielseitigsten und beeindruckendsten Frauen zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eigenwillig, wissbegierig und wagemutig bereiste die Tochter wohlhabender Engländer die arabische Welt...