num_pages: 368
description: 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 by over 160 photos, of Bell's 1905 journey from Jericho to Antioch, a land of warring tribes under Turkish control.
language: English
title: The Desert and the Sown: The Syrian Adventures of the Female Lawrence of Arabia
titlecomplete: The Desert and the Sown: The Syrian Adventures of the Female Lawrence of Arabia
genres: Adventure, British Literature, History, Travel, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 263
publisher: Cooper Square Press