Gertrude Bell
Subtitle: The Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914
Contributors: Gertrude Lowthian Bell (Photographer)
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780815606727
Subjects: Biography: general; Colonization & independence; Travel writing; Women's studies; c 1900 - c 1914; Essays & Travelogues; Biography / Autobiography; Travelers; Science; History: World; ASIA; Middle East; Middle East - General; Bell, Gertrude Lowthian,; Travel; Earth Sciences - Geography; 1868-1926; Description And Travel; Saudi Arabia; Social life and customs
Description: "In this volume of three of her notebooks, Rosemary O'Brien preserves Bell's elegant, vibrant prose and presents Bell as a brilliant tactician fearlessly confronting her own vulnerability. The fundamental themes of her life - reckless behavior, a divided self which combined brilliance of intellect with a passionate nature, a sense of history, and the fatal gift of falling in love with a married man - are all here in remarkable detail.

Her journey to northern Arabia in 1914 earned Bell professional recognition from the Royal Geographical Society and solidified her reputation as a canny political analyst of Middle Eastern affairs." "In addition to Bell's own photographs, O'Brien has provided us an unprecedented first access to excerpts of the Bell/Charles H. M. Doughty-Wylie love letters, the married British army officer with whom she was in love and for whom her diaries were written."--BOOK JACKET.