The Desert and the Sown

The Desert and the SownBorn to transcend the social constraints of Victorian England, Gertrude Bell left the comforts of her privileged life for the unconventional but thrilling world of the Middle East. One of the first women to graduate from Oxford, she traveled to Persia and became passionately drawn to the Arab people, the language, and their architecture. A skilled archeologist, historian, and linguist, Bell traveled the world and wrote compelling, perceptive accounts

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