After this she travelled to Persia to visit her uncle, an ambassador in Tehran. Gertrude Bell received her education at Oxford, the first woman to graduate in Modern History with honors, a feat she achieved in only two years at the age of 17. I believe most true travelers are also dreamers, and I found myself fully engrossed in Gertrude’s fascinating Arabian world- a bygone era of which we can only romanticize about today. It was the perfect book for me at the time. I was in a “Middle East” kind of mood because we were contemplating traveling to the region for our next adventure. This book was on our library bookshelf for years before I finally picked it up to give it a try. Bell’s extraordinary life and times in Desert Queen. Isabelle Eberhardt, Mary Kingsley, and Isabella Bird are just a few in this group, but one of the most remarkable examples of this is Gertrude Bell, whom many have referred to as the “Desert Queen.” Author, Janet Wallach, explores Ms. There was a time when a select few Victorian ladies did what would be unthinkable then - they set out on remote and dangerous expeditions through strange and inhospitable foreign lands. The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Advisor to Kings, and Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
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