![]() ![]() few women have had a life more worth reading about. Her lifeless body was discovered early on the morning of July 12, two days before her 58th birthday. Tales from the Queen of the Desert, Pre-Owned Paperback 1843915472 9781843915478. On the evening of July 11, 1926, Gertrude Bell took an overdose of sleeping pills and tranquilizers in her Baghdad home and fell asleep. 'Howell sketches in the gradations of colour and emotion that have been lacking in hitherto monochrome accounts of Bell's life. Gertrude Bell : Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations (Paperback). the combination of epic scenes and personal drama makes Georgina Howell's saga a winner' Daily Express 'What a great Oscar-laden biopic this will make. Previously published as Daughter of the Desert, this is a compelling portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class and age and in so doing created a remarkable and enduring legacy. Queen of the Desert is her story, vividly told and impeccably researched, drawing on Gertrude's own writings, both published and unpublished. Archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, mountaineer and nation builder, Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty, but she turned her back on all that for her passion for the Arab peoples, becoming the architect of the independent kingdom of Iraq and seeing its first king Faisal safely onto the throne in 1921. ![]()
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