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04961cam a2200757 a 4500 001 29EE9062AC3311EB98A411E3203FDB2A 003 SILO 005 20210503121523 008 060911r20072006nyuabf b 001 0beng 010 $a 2006029994 020 $a 9780374161620 020 $a 0374161623 035 $a (OCoLC)71312918 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d BAKER $d GK8 $d C#P $d BTCTA $d BUR $d YDXCP $d XMA $d JED $d MOF $d VP@ $d SMP $d F4B $d CQU $d GEBAY $d OCLCQ $d I4F $d S3O $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d XFH $d SFR $d OCLCQ $d RB0 $d OCL $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d XZ9 $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d CPO $d TXSPI $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d O2L $d SILO 043 $a aw----- $a aw----- 050 00 $a DA566.9.B39 $b H69 2007 082 00 $a B $a B $2 22 100 1 $a Howell, Georgina, $d 1942- 240 10 $a Daughter of the desert 245 10 $a Gertrude Bell : $b queen of the desert, shaper of nations / $c Georgina Howell. 250 $a 1st American ed. 260 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $c 2007. 300 $a xix, 481 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 500 $a "Originally published in 2006 by Macmillan, Great Britain, as Daughter of the desert"--Title page verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-460) and index. 505 0 $a Gertrude and Florence -- Education -- The civilized woman -- Becoming a person -- Mountaineering -- Desert travel -- Dick Doughty-Wylie -- Limit of endurance -- Escape -- War work -- Cairo, Delhi, Basra -- Government through Gertrude -- Anger -- Faisal -- Coronation -- Staying and leaving. 520 $a She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born into privilege in 1868, Bell turned her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, and mountaineer. She traveled the globe several times, but her passion was the desert--her vast knowledge of the region made her indispensable to the British government during World War I. As an army major on the front lines in Mesopotamia, she supported the creation of an autonomous Arab nation for Iraq, promoting and manipulating the election of King Faisal to the throne and helping to draw the borders of the fledgling state.--From publisher description. 600 10 $a Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, $d 1868-1926. 650 0 $a Travelers $z Middle East $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women travelers $z Middle East $v Biography. 650 0 $a Archaeologists $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women archaeologists $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a Asianists $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women Asianists $v Biography. 650 0 $a Colonial administrators $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a Colonial administrators $z Middle East $v Biography. 600 17 $a Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, $d 1868-1926. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00019896 650 7 $a Archaeologists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00812929 650 7 $a Asianists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01750237 650 7 $a Colonial administrators. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00868434 650 7 $a Travelers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01155691 650 7 $a Women archaeologists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177135 650 7 $a Women Asianists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01734120 650 7 $a Women travelers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01178642 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 651 7 $a Middle East. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01241586 650 7 $a Engelska kvinnliga resenaÌrer $z MellanoÌstern $y 1900-talet $y 1900-talet $x biografi. $2 sao 650 7 $a Arabister $z Storbritannien $x biografi. $2 sao 650 7 $a Gertrude Bell, 1868-1926. $2 sao 650 7 $a Engelska kvinnliga resenaÌrer $z MellanoÌstern $y 1900-talet $y 1900-talet $v biografi. $2 sao 650 7 $a Kvinnliga arkeologer $z MellanoÌstern $y 1900-talet $y 1900-talet $v biografi. $2 sao 650 7 $a Arabister $z Storbritannien $v biografi. $2 sao 650 7 $a Women travelers $v Biography. $2 sears 650 7 $a Women archeologists $v Biography. $2 sears 650 7 $a Colonial administrators $v Biography. $2 sears 600 17 $a Bell, Gertrude Lowthian. $2 swd 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 856 41 $3 Sample text $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0739/2006029994-s.html 856 41 $3 Table of contents $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0620/2006029994.html 856 42 $3 Contributor biographical information $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2006029994-b.html 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2006029994-d.html 941 $a 1 $n 1 952 $l WHPE115 $d 20211227112021.0 $n 6 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=29EE9062AC3311EB98A411E3203FDB2A 994 $a C0 $b IOZInitiate Another SILO Locator Search