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A family portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the forthcoming major film Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert Pattinson and aimed by Werner Herzog. Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg. One of the great female adventurers of the 20th century, she switched her back again on Victorian contemporary society to review at Oxford and travel the planet and became the principle architect of British policy in the centre East after World Battle I. Mountaineer, archaeologist, Arabist, article writer, poet, linguist, and spy, she dedicated her life to championing the Arab cause and was instrumental in sketching the borders that define today's Middle East. As she published in another of her characters, "It's a bore being truly a woman if you are in Arabia." Forthright and spirited, opinionated and playful, and deeply instructive about the Arab world, this level includes Bell's letters, military services dispatches, journal entries, and travel writings to offer an intimate check out a woman who shaped nations. For more than 65 years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of typical literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics signifies a global bookshelf of the best works throughout record and across styles and disciplines. Listeners trust the series to provide authoritative texts increased by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and modern writers as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
