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by Gertrude Bell (Author)
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (1868-1926) was an English writer, political officer, traveller, archaeologist, and administrator. She became an important policy-maker in the British Empire as a result of her extensive knowledge and contacts, which she built up through her numerous travels in Mesopotamia, Greater Syria, Asia Minor, and Arabia. Contents include: "Tell Aḥmar To Buseirah", "Buseirah To H t", "The Parthian Stations Of Isidorus Of Charax", "H t To Kerbel ", "The Palace Of Ukheiḍir", "Kerbel To Baghd d", "Baghd d To M ṣul", "The Ruins Of S marr ", "M ṣul To Z kh ", "Z kh To Diy rbekr", "Diy rbekr To Konia", etc. Other notable works by this author include: "Poems from the Divan of Hafiz" (1892), "The Desert and the Sown" (1907), and "Mountains of the Servants of God" (1910). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition with specially curated introductory material.
