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001 2006029994
003 DLC
005 20100310140539.0
008 060911r20072006nyuabf b 001 0beng
010 $a 2006029994
020 $a0374161623 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9780374161620 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm71312918
035 $a(OCoLC)71312918
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050 00 $aDA566.9.B39$bH69 2007
082 00 $a956/.02092$aB$222
100 1 $aHowell, Georgina,$d1942-
240 10 $aDaughter of the desert
245 10 $aGertrude Bell :$bqueen of the desert, shaper of nations /$cGeorgina Howell.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2007.
300 $axix, 481 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
500 $a"Originally published in 2006 by Macmillan, Great Britain, as Daughter of the desert"--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [453]-460) and index.
505 0 $aGertrude and Florence -- Education -- The civilized woman -- Becoming a person -- Mountaineering -- Desert travel -- Dick Doughty-Wylie -- Limit of endurance -- Escape -- War work -- Cairo, Delhi, Basra -- Government through Gertrude -- Anger -- Faisal -- Coronation -- Staying and leaving
520 $aShe 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 several times, but her passion was the desert--her vast knowledge of the region made her indispensable to the British government during World War I. As an army major on the front lines in Mesopotamia, she supported the creation of an autonomous Arab nation for Iraq, promoting and manipulating the election of King Faisal to the throne and helping to draw the borders of the fledgling state.--From publisher description.
600 10 $aBell, Gertrude Lowthian,$d1868-1926.
650 0 $aTravelers$zMiddle East$vBiography.
650 0 $aWomen travelers$zMiddle East$vBiography.
650 0 $aArchaeologists$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
650 0 $aWomen archaeologists$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
650 0 $aAsianists$vBiography.
650 0 $aWomen Asianists$vBiography.
650 0 $aColonial administrators$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
650 0 $aColonial administrators$zMiddle East$vBiography.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0620/2006029994.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2006029994-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2006029994-d.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0739/2006029994-s.html