Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
5 best books like Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations (Georgina Howell): Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia, The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels, Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self: The Givens Collection, Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark, Running Away to Home: Our Family's Journey to Croatia in Search of Who We Are, Where We Came From, and What Really Matters
| Author | Janet Wallach |
| ISBN | 1400096197 |
Turning away from the privileged world of the "eminent Victorians," Gertrude Bell (1868—1926) explored, mapped, and excavated the world of the Arabs. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders, and her connections and...
The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels
| Author | Freya Stark |
| ISBN | 0375757538 |
Hailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation's most intrepid explorers. The book chronicles her travels into Luristan, the mountainous terrain nestled between Iraq and present-day Iran, often with only...
| Author | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins |
| ISBN | 0743467698 |
Of One Blood is the last of four novels written by Pauline Hopkins. She is considered by some to be "the most prolific African-American woman writer and the most influential literary editor of the first decade of the twentieth century, though she is one of the lesser known literary figures of the much...
| Author | Jane Fletcher Geniesse |
| ISBN | 0375757465 |
Freya Stark—traveler, explorer, Arabist, and woman of letters—began the extraordinary adventures that would glamorize her—and would catapult her into public life for the next sixty years—in 1927. And with the publication of The Valley of the Assassins in 1934, her legend was launched.
Leaving...
Running Away to Home: Our Family's Journey to Croatia in Search of Who We Are, Where We Came From, and What Really Matters
| Author | Jennifer Wilson |
| ISBN | 0312598955 |
A middle class, Midwestern family in search of meaning uproot themselves and move to their ancestral village in Croatia
"We can look at this in two ways," Jim wrote, always the pragmatist. "We can panic and scrap the whole idea. Or we can take this as a sign. They're saying the economy is going...
