{"product_id":"gertrude-bell-rosemary-obrien-9780815606475","title":"Gertrude Bell: The Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Englishwoman Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life. Her 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. Bell's 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.\" Bell numbered among her closest friends T.E. Lawrence, St. John Philby, and Arabian sheiks. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this volume of three of her notebooks, Rosemary O'Brien preserves Bell's elegant, vibrant prose, and presents Bell as a brilliant tactician fearlessly confronting her own vulnerability. The fundamental themes of her life--reckless behavior; a divided self which combined brilliance of intellect with a passionate nature; a sense of history; and the fatal gift of falling in love with a married man--are all here in remarkable detail. Her journey to northern Arabia in 1914 earned Bell professional recognition from the Royal Geographical Society, and solidified her reputation as a canny political analyst of Middle Eastern affairs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn addition to Bell's own photographs, O'Brien has provided us an unprecedented first access to excerpts of the Bell\/Richard Doughty-Wyllie love letters, the married British army officer with whom she was in love and for whom her diaries were written.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rosemary O'Brien\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0815606478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815606475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs","brand":"Rosemary O'Brien","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43978366615807,"sku":"9780815606475","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f0402e35-c3b3-48e5-944d-c18a30fd1db1.jpg?v=1683241147","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gertrude-bell-rosemary-obrien-9780815606475","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}