{"product_id":"gertrude-bell-rosemary-obrien-9780815606727","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 0815606729\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815606727\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 10\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 7.26w x 1.15d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2001 pg. 34","brand":"Rosemary O'Brien","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43992495227135,"sku":"9780815606727","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b1aa0701-7f00-4cd5-a152-db3d445b339c.jpg?v=1683319251","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gertrude-bell-rosemary-obrien-9780815606727","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}