TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bell,Gertrude Lowthian
AU  - Howell,Georgina
TI  - A woman in Arabia: the writings of the Queen of the Desert 
T2  - Penguin Classics
SN  - 9780143107378
AV  - DS208 .B35 2015
U1  - 956.02/092 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Bell, Gertrude Lowthian,
KW  - Asianists
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women Asianists
KW  - Travelers
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Women travelers
KW  - Archaeologists
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Women archaeologists
KW  - Colonial administrators
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1914-1945
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes index; The linguist -- The poet -- The "person" -- The mountaineer -- The archaeologist -- The desert traveler -- The lover -- The prisoner -- The war worker -- The intrusives -- The nation builder -- The kingmaker -- The courtier
N2  - "A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia. One of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century and the chief architect of British policy in the Middle East after World War I, Gertrude Bell turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford and travel the world. Mountaineer, archaeologist, Arabist, writer, poet, linguist, and spy, she dedicated her life to championing the Arab cause and was instrumental in drawing the borders that define today's Middle East. As she wrote in one of her letters, "It's a bore being a woman when you are in Arabia." Forthright and spirited, opinionated and playful, and deeply instructive about the Arab world, this volume brings together Bell's letters, military dispatches, diary entries, and travel writings to offer an intimate look at a woman who shaped nations."--Back cover
ER  -