Browse by category
A Woman In Arabia: The Writings Of The Queen Of The Desert by Gertrude Bell
Category: Travel
A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the upcoming major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert Pattinson, and directed by Werner Herzog Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg. One o ...Show more
Syria: The Desert and the Sown by Gertrude Bell
Category: Travel
"You may rely upon one thing - I'll never engage in creating kings again; it's too great a strain."Gertrude Bell - traveller, scholar, archaeologist, spy - was one of the most powerful figures in the Middle East in the 20th century. With T.E. Lawrence, she was a significant force behind the Arab Revolt ...Show more
Syria - The Desert and the Sown by Gertrude Bell
Category: Travel
"You may rely upon one thing - I'll never engage in creating kings again; it's too great a strain."Gertrude Bell - traveller, scholar, archaeologist, spy - was one of the most powerful figures in the Middle East in the 20th century. With T.E. Lawrence, she was a significant force behind the Arab Revolt ...Show more
The Garden of HeavenPoems of Hafiz by Hafiz; Gertrude Lowthian Bell (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
"Hafiz has no peer." -- GoethePoetry is the greatest literary form of ancient Persia and modern Iran, and the fourteenth-century poet known as Hafiz is its preeminent master. Little is known about the poet's life, and there are more legends than facts relating to the particulars of his existence. This m ...Show more
0 - 3 of 4