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Rosemary O'Brien
Books by Rosemary O'Brien
The Desert and the Sown
The Syrian Adventures of the Female Lawrence of Arabia
Introduction by Rosemary O'Brien
A seeming contradiction, Gertrude Bell was both a proper Victorian and an intrepid explorer of the Arabian wilderness. She was a close friend of T. E. Lawrence, and played an important role in creating the modern map of the Middle East after World War I. The Desert and the Sown is a chronicle, il...