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THE LETTERS OF GERTRUDE BELL - VOLUME TWO IBD

BRILLIANT WOMEN - READ & CO.
06 / 2020
9781528715676
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Sinopsis

First published in 1929, this book contains volume II of ?The Letters of Gertrude Bell?. Contents include: ?1917 Bagdad?, ?1918-1919 Bagdad?, ?1920 Bagdad?, ?Historical Summaries?, ?Major General Sir Percy Cox, G.C.M.G., Etc.?, ?H.E. Sir Henry Dobbs, K.C.S.I., Etc.?, ?1920 Bagdad?, ?1921 Bagdad?, ?1921 Bagdad?, etc. A fascinating insight into the life and mind of a woman who played a major role in establishing administering the modern state of Iraq.Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (1868?1926) was an English writer, political officer, traveller, archaeologist, and administrator. She became an important policy-making 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. 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). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition with specially curated introductory material.

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