Nancy Pearl recommends Georgina Howell's riveting biography of Gertrude Bell to biography fans, history buffs, or any reader with an interest in... It was summer, 1997. As contract writers for The ...
In her preface, Howell claims that Bell’s “voice ought to be heard and appreciated, it seemed to me–which is why I decided to use many more of her own words than would appear in a conventional ...
In this hefty, thoroughly enjoyable biography of Gertrude Bell (1868–1926), English journalist Howell describes her subject as not only "the most famous British traveler of her day, male or female" ...
In March 1921 Gertrude Bell, Winston Churchill and T.E. Lawrence mounted their camels in front of the Great Sphinx outside Cairo and smiled for the camera. They had agreed to make Prince Faisal, son ...
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