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Turning her back again on her behalf privileged life in Victorian England, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), fired by her innate interest, journeyed the planet and became fascinated with everything Arab. Traveling the distance and breadth of the Arab region, equipped with a love because of its language and its own people, she not only produced several enormously popular catalogs predicated on her experience but became instrumental to the English foreign office. When World Warfare I erupted, and the British needed the commitment of the Arab market leaders, it was Gertrude Bell's work and associations that helped supply the brain for T. E. Lawrence's armed forces brawn. After the conflict she participated in both the Paris and Cairo conferences, played a major role in creating the modern Midsection East, and was generally considered the most effective female in the British Empire. In this incident-packed biography, Janet Wallach unveils a female whose accomplishments and independent nature were especially exceptional on her behalf times, and who brought the same interest and strength to her explorations as she do to her rich romantic life. Too long eclipsed by Lawrence's popularity, Gertrude Bell emerges in this first major biography as a female whose accomplishments get ranking as essential to world background (especially in light of the carrying on geopolitical importance of the Middle East) and whose life was a grand trip.
