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A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical importShe has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born in 1868 into a world of privilege, Bell turned her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author (of Persian Pictures, The Desert and the Sown, and many other collections), poet, photographer, and legendary mountaineer (she took off her skirt and climbed the Alps in her underclothes).She traveled the globe several times, but her passion was the desert, where she traveled with only her guns and her servants. Her vast knowledge of the region made her indispensable to the Cairo Intelligence Office of the British government during World War I. She advised the Viceroy of India; then, as an army major, she traveled to the front lines in Mesopotamia. There, she supported the creation of an autonomous Arab nation for Iraq, promoting and manipulating the election of King Faisal to the throne and helping to draw the borders of the fledgling state. Gertrude Bell, vividly told and impeccably researched by Georgina Howell, is a richly compelling portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class and times, and in so doing, created a remarkable and enduring legacy." … there’s never a dull moment in the peerless life of this trailblazing character." - Kirkus Reviews

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I was so sorry to come to the end of this book. Every page was fascinating, written and thoroughly researched by Georgina Howell who gives us a fascinating account of a remarkable life. Gertrude Bell, born of a wealthy Victorian family, educated at Oxford, spent most of her life traveling through the Middle East, in style and on horse or camelback, and becoming very involved in its development during the early twentieth century. She had a major role in the founding of Iraq and the democratic election of its first King, Faisal, and was present as the victorious Allied powers reshaped the Arab world after World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman empire. Consulted and trusted by many powerful men from Churchill to King Faisal, her knowledge of Arabic and the ways of the Arabs- and the West- made her an invaluable resource to the British and Arabs alike.What this book taught me was how little most of us know about this era in history, about the Arab world, its customs and dramas, its personalities and clashes with the Western world which continue to this day. I was profoundly moved when I read at the end of the book that the Iraq Museum for which Gertrude had spent her last days painstakingly collecting artifacts (she became an archaeologist in order to do so) was looted of some ten thousand items and closed in 2003.I can't recommend this book strongly enough. I had previously read Freya Stark's biography, "Passionate Nomad" about another brave British woman who traveled through the mideast, and I plan to read "A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence" (Lawrence of Arabia). This triumvirate had a profound influence on the Arab world which is well worth understanding.

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