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008			951002s1996 nyuab b 001 0beng
010			_a 95044868
020			_a0385474083 _q(hbk. : alk. paper)
020			_a9780385474085 _q(hbk. : alk. paper)
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100	1		_aWallach, Janet, _d1942- _96589
245	1	0	_aDesert queen : _bthe extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell, adventurer, adviser to kings, ally of Lawrence of Arabia /
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bNan A. Talese/Doubleday, _c1996.
300			_axxv, 419 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c25 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 393-401) and index.
505	0		_aPart I. A Victorian. -- Of great and honored stock -- A man's world -- An ill-fated marriage -- Flight -- First steps in the desert -- A different challenge -- The desert and the sown -- Women's rights -- Lawrence -- Dick -- Toward Hayil -- Prisoner in Arabia -- Rumblings of war -- A tragic end -- Escape to the East -- A remarkably clever woman -- Part II. The Khatun. -- A messy situation -- An independent woman -- Baghdad -- Disarray -- Paris and the Arab question -- The Arab mood -- A change of thinking -- Desert storms -- A taste of England -- The clash -- An unpleasant victory -- Cox returns -- The Cairo Conference -- Resistance -- Faisal -- The king -- Ken -- Farewell to Cox -- Troubles -- To sleep -- Epilogue -- The Hashemite Family of Sharif Hussein of Mecca.
520			_aReared in the comfortable and privileged world of the "eminent Victorians," Gertrude Bell turned her back on convention and sought adventure in Arab lands. 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. 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.E. Lawrence's military brawn. 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. In her lifetime, she was known as the most powerful woman in the British Empire.
600	1	0	_aBell, Gertrude Lowthian, _d1868-1926. _925320
650		0	_aWomen Middle East specialists _vBiography. _925321
650		0	_aColonial administrators _zGreat Britain _vBiography. _925322
650		0	_aColonial administrators _zMiddle East _vBiography. _925323
655		0	_aBiography. _996793
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aWallach, Janet, 1942- _tDesert queen. _b1st ed. _dNew York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1996 _w(OCoLC)604996216
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aWallach, Janet, 1942- _tDesert queen. _b1st ed. _dNew York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1996 _w(OCoLC)609061322
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/95044868-b.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0413/95044868.html
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