Gertrude Bell : queen of the desert, shaper of nations
Georgina Howell
Bok Engelsk 2008
| Utgitt | New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2008
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| Omfang | XIX, 481 s. : ill., kart, port.
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| Opplysninger | "She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born into privilege in 1868, Bell turned her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, and mountaineer. She traveled the globe sev. - Har bibliografi
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| ISBN | 0374161623. - 9780374161620. - 275,00
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