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Desert queen : the extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell, adventurer, adviser to kings, ally of Lawrence of Arabia / Janet Wallach.

by Wallach, Janet, 1942-

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New York : Anchor Books, 2005.

Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868-1926.

Women Middle East specialists -- Biography.

Colonial administrators -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Colonial administrators -- Middle East -- Biography.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0626/2005277878-d.html

xxii, 425 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.

Anchor Books ed.

A Victorian -- Of great and honored stock -- A man's world -- An ill-fated marriage -- Flight -- First steps in the desert -- A different challenge -- The desert and the sown -- Women's rights -- Lawrence -- Dick -- Toward Hayil -- Prisoner in Arabia -- Rumblings of war -- A tragic end -- Escape to the East -- A remarkably clever women -- A messy situation -- An independent woman -- Baghdad -- Disarray -- Paris and the Arab question -- The Arab mood -- A change of thinking -- Desert storms -- A taste of England -- The clash -- An unpleasant victory -- Cox returns -- The Cairo Conference -- Resistance -- Faisal -- The King -- Ken -- Farewell to Cox -- Troubles -- To sleep.

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