Wallach deploys the linear mode of historical storytelling: She opens with the Bell clan amassing their millions in the ironworks of Northumbria and closes with Bell's suicide.

This biography of Bell-Britain's woman in Mesopotamia during the early part of this century-is a near day-by-day account of her life, relying heavily on Bell's correspondence and diaries to set the tone of the narrative (long on intimacy, short on analysis). Urn:oclc:875767892 Scandate 20110225192627 Scanner life of Gertrude Bell (18681926)-bluestocking, Oxfordian, orientalist-told in mind-addling detail by Wallach (coauthor, The New Palestinians, 1992, etc.). OL1896278W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 91.97 Pages 470 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0307744361 Urn:lcp:desertqueenextra00wall:epub:de4eb952-9f2d-41e9-aea5-a44e4ad91288 Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier desertqueenextra00wall Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1dj6891d Isbn 0385474083ĩ780385474085 Lccn 95044868 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition In her lifetime, she was known as the most powerful woman in the British EmpireĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:28:54 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA137214 Boxid_2 BWB220140926 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Comment Set Scanfee to 100 on all Pre-June IA Sponsored Books as per Robert Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st ed. To cap off this amazing career, she participated in the postwar peace conferences as a major architect of the modern Middle East, helping to found the state of Iraq and installing its dashing monarch, to whom she was an intimate adviser. The trust she earned among the Arab sheikhs and chieftains made her indispensable when war broke out recruited by British intelligence, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders, and her connections and information provided the brain for T. Traveling numerous times through the Syrian Desert and, at risk to her life, through the great Arabian desert of the Nejd - the last European to do so before the eruption of World War I - she wrote of her travels in widely acclaimed books. Reared in the comfortable and privileged world of the 'eminent Victorians,' Gertrude Bell turned her back on convention and sought adventure in Arab lands.

Desert queen by janet wallach