Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Bell, Gertrude; Howell, Georgina; Howell, Georgina |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics |
| Date: | 8/11/2015 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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
GertrudeBell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg. One of the greatwoman adventurers of the twentieth century, she turned her back onVictorian society to study at Oxford and travel the world, and becamethe chief architect of British policy in the Middle East after World WarI. Mountaineer, archaeologist, Arabist, writer, poet, linguist, andspy, she dedicated her life to championing the Arab cause and wasinstrumental in drawing the borders that define today’s Middle East.
Asshe wrote in one of her letters, “It’s a bore being a woman when youare in Arabia.” Forthright and spirited, opinionated and playful, anddeeply instructive about the Arab world, this volume brings togetherBell’s letters, military dispatches, diary entries, and travel writingsto offer an intimate look at a woman who shaped nations.
For morethan seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher ofclassic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the bestworks throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readerstrust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced byintroductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporaryauthors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winningtranslators.
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