Gertrude Bell
H.V.F. Winstone
504 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0954772806
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Language: English
Publish: December 31, 1978
First published in 1978, Winstone’s lively biography of one of the most indomitable of Middle Eastern travellers has been revised. Born in 1868 Gertrude became `a confident and welcome figure in society’ but she was driven on by a fierce spirit of adventure, not to mention courage, to climb the mountains of Europe and explore its archaeological rem