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QUEEN OF THE DESERT - GEORGINA HOWELL KARTONIER...

Archaeologist  spy  Arabist  linguist  author  poet  photographer  mountaineer and nation
builder  Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty  but she turned
her back on all that for her passion for the Arab peoples  becoming the architect of the
independent kingdom of Iraq and seeing its first king Faisal safely onto the throne in 1921.
Queen of the Desert is her story  vividly told and impeccably researched  drawing on Gertrude's
own writings  both published and unpublished. Previously published as Daughter of the Desert 
this is a compelling portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class and age
and in so doing created a remarkable and enduring legacy.'What a great Oscar-laden biopic this
will make ...the combination of epic scenes and personal drama makes Georgina Howell's saga a
winner' Daily Express'Howell sketches in the gradations of colour and emotion that have been
lacking in hitherto monochrome accounts of Bell's life ... Exemplary' Sunday Times'Riveting ...
few women have had a life more worth reading about.' Diana Athill  Literary Review

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