Bell, Gertrude Lowthian 1868-1926

The letters of Gertrude Bell by Gertrude Lowthian Bell ( Book )
39 editions published between 1927 and 2006 in English and held by 757 libraries worldwide

The desert and the sown by Gertrude Lowthian Bell ( Book )
62 editions published between 1907 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 709 libraries worldwide
"By the standards of any age, the life of Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was extraordinary. During her travels in the Middle East, she rode with bandits; was captured by Bedouins; and sojourned in a harem. Her colleagues and friends included Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Arabian sheiks. During World War I she worked for British intelligence and later played a crucial role in creating the modern Middle East." "Bell's adventurous career belied her privileged upbringing and sharply contrasted with an era when the parlor and the nursery marked the expected, conventional boundaries of an Englishwoman's life. (Still, it would take Bell a dozen years to be recognized by, and admitted to, the patriarchal Royal Geographical Society.)" "Passionate about Arabia, then an inhospitable land of nomadic and warring tribes under Turkish control, she wrote this now classic account of her 1905 trip across the Syrian Desert from Jericho to Antioch. To read it is to be transported."--BOOK JACKET.

Gertrude Bell : the Arabian diaries, 1913-1914 by Gertrude Lowthian Bell ( Book )
29 editions published between 1937 and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 533 libraries worldwide
Gertrude Bell's Arabian Diaries, published here for the first time, rank as one of the great travel narratives, carrying readers along on a desperate and heroic journey that foreshadows the emergence of the future imperial servant in Baghdad in the 1920s. Bell's 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 counseled kings and prime ministers. He 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." She numbered among her closest friends T. E. Lawrence, St. John Philby, and Arabian sheiks. Editor O'Brien preserves Bell's elegant, vibrant prose, and includes her photographs and excerpts of the love letters she exchanged with a married British army officer.--From publisher description.

Persian pictures by Gertrude Lowthian Bell ( Book )
27 editions published between 1928 and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 497 libraries worldwide
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 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 mourning for Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed--and Ramadan, display a mind finely attuned to the differences and similarities between Islam and Christianity, East and West. "Persian Pictures" is both travelog and meditation, an elegaic and beautifully observed account of a spellbinding land.--From publisher description.

Teachings of Hafiz by Ḥāfiẓ ( Book )
19 editions published between 1962 and 2007 in English and Persian and held by 423 libraries worldwide

Amurath to Amurath by Gertrude Lowthian Bell ( Book )
13 editions published between 1911 and 2008 in English and held by 264 libraries worldwide
"Gertrude Bell the well-known explorer and archaeologist began her extensive travels in the Near East in 1892. In her trips, she surveyed and photographed the areas which she visited and investigated archaeological sites. Due to her extensive knowledge of the area, she became a target for recruitment by British Intelligence. Amurath to Amurath is an account of some of her travels in the Middle East."--BOOK JACKET.

The Thousand and one churches by William Mitchell Ramsay ( Book )
15 editions published between 1909 and 2008 in English and held by 253 libraries worldwide

Poems from the Divan of Hafiz by Ḥāfiẓ ( Book )
8 editions published between 1897 and 1928 in English and held by 121 libraries worldwide

The churches and monasteries of the Ṭur ʻAbdin by Gertrude Lowthian Bell ( Book )
1 edition published in 1982 in English and held by 113 libraries worldwide

Amida: Matériaux pour l'épigraphie et l'histoire musulmanes du Diyar-bekr by Max van Berchem ( Book )
2 editions published in 1910 in German and French and held by 99 libraries worldwide