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The Letters of Gertrude Bell - Volume Two

The Letters of Gertrude Bell - Volume Two

Gertrude Bell

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Brilliant Women - Read & Co.
Año de edición:
2020
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9781528715676
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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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