![]() ![]() This classic work is being republished now in a new edition with specially curated introductory material. ![]() T Other notable works by this author include: "Poems from the Divan of Hafiz" (1892), "The Desert and the Sown" (1907), and "Mountains of the Servants of God" (1910). She became an important policy-maker in the British Empire as a result of her extensive knowledge and contacts, which she built up through her numerous travels in Mesopotamia, Greater Syria, Asia Minor, and Arabia. Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (1868-1926) was an English writer, political officer, traveller, archaeologist, and administrator. ![]() His fascinating and insightful account will appeal to those with an interest in Arabia at the start of the twentieth century and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Bell's wonderful work. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. First published in 1919, Syria - The Desert and The Sown is an extensively-illustrated chronicle of Gertrude Bells 1905 trip from Jericho to Antioch. Gertrude Bell, Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. First published in 1919, "Syria - The Desert and The Sown" is an extensively-illustrated chronicle of Gertrude Bell's 1905 trip from Jericho to Antioch, which was under the control of warring Turkish tribes at the time. Syria the Desert and the Sown by Gertrude Bell eBook Barnes & NobleĀ® Gertrude had written of the fatalistic nomad attitude to this life in The Desert and the Sown. ![]()
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