The Englishwoman Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life. Her adventures are the stuff of novels: she rode with bandits; braved desert shamals; was captured by Bedouins; and sojourned in a harem. Called the most powerful woman in the British empire, she counselled kings and prime ministers. Bell's colleagues included Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, who in 1921 invited Bell - the only woman whose advice was sought - to the Cairo Conference to determine the future of Mesopotamia. Bell numbered among her closest friends T.E. Lawrence, St. John Philby and Arabian sheiks.
The Englishwoman Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life. Her adventures are the stuff of novels: she rode with bandits; braved desert shamals; was ...
E.G. Browne has commented: Bells translations are true poetry of a very high order and, with perhaps the single exception of FitzGeralds paraphrase of The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, are probably the finest and most truly poetical renderings of any Persian poet ever produced in the English language.
E.G. Browne has commented: Bells translations are true poetry of a very high order and, with perhaps the single exception of FitzGeralds paraphrase of...
This brilliant, vivid and impressionistic series of sketches, formed during her 1892 stay in Persia, is Gertrude Bell's first published work. Infused with a distinctive orientalism, 'Persian Pictures' is an evocative, virtuosic meditation, moving sinuously between Persia's heroic, complex, mythical past and its present decline; the public face of Tehran and the otherworldly 'secret, mysterious life of the East', the lives of its women, its enclosed, quasi-medieval gardens; from the bustling cities to the lonely wastelands of Khorasan. Bell's documentation of Muharram - the month of...
This brilliant, vivid and impressionistic series of sketches, formed during her 1892 stay in Persia, is Gertrude Bell's first published work. Infus...
Traveller, archaeologist, mountaineer and diplomat, Gertrude Bell (1868 1926) poured her extraordinary talents into a series of adventures through Europe and the Middle East. Addressing her experiences in Persia and Syria respectively, Safar Nameh (1894) and The Desert and the Sown (1907) are both reissued in this series. The present work, first published in 1911 and among Bell's most acclaimed, describes her recent expedition to Mesopotamia. She recounts her outward journey to the Abbasid palace of Ukhaidir and her return via Baghdad and Asia Minor. Notably discussing changes in the region...
Traveller, archaeologist, mountaineer and diplomat, Gertrude Bell (1868 1926) poured her extraordinary talents into a series of adventures through Eur...
These quotations from Gertrude's letters to her loved ones will enchant, enthral and inspire you as you travel with her over the year. The quotations are from her letters, mainly to her family, which were published after her death. They are numbered 1 to 365 and appear in sequence beginning in 1889 and ending in 1926. Travel with Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) on her journeys - both inner and outer - as she explores life to the full. Part of the Knowing Women series - a series of books by, or about, women who were inspirational in their field of interest. These women all, in one way or another,...
These quotations from Gertrude's letters to her loved ones will enchant, enthral and inspire you as you travel with her over the year. The quotations ...
Das Raunen und Tuscheln der Wüste ist ein Meisterwerk, der Reisebericht einer furchtlosen, abenteuerlichen und exzentrischen Frau, brillant geschrieben und mitreißend erzählt.
Das Raunen und Tuscheln der Wüste ist ein Meisterwerk, der Reisebericht einer furchtlosen, abenteuerlichen und exzentrischen Frau, brillant geschrieb...
Discover How Hafiz's Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own
Hafiz is known throughout the world as Persia's greatest poet, with sales of his poems in Iran today only surpassed by those of the Qur'an itself. His probing and joyful verse speaks to people from all backgrounds who long to taste and feel divine love and experience harmony with all living things.
This beautiful sampling of Hafiz's works captures his deep spiritual understanding, offering a glimpse into the vision that has inspired people around the world for centuries. Considered by his...
Discover How Hafiz's Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own
Hafiz is known throughout the world as Persia's greate...
One very determined woman incontestably held her own and more with the great figures of the Middle East in the early twentieth century. That was Gertrude Bell. Highly strung, petulant, aggressive, and gossipy, she occasionally provided tea but rarely sympathy to the extraordinary group of British imperial administrators whose adventures centered on Basra at the head of the Gulf in 1914-1916. Not enough has been made of the Barra cabal as a group rather than individuals. Nor have the machinations of the 'Basra gang' had the attention given to figures such as Lawrence of Arabia and General...
One very determined woman incontestably held her own and more with the great figures of the Middle East in the early twentieth century. That was Gertr...
