Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell - Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia

Janet Wallach

Fascinating biography of the iconoclastic English woman who in Baghdad in 1921 drew the boundaries of the country that became Iraq. Gertrude Bell was one of Oxford University's early female students, an archaelogist, a linguist, photographer, inveterate writer of letters and the greatest woman mountaine...