The Desert and the Sown
- Authors
- Bell, Gertrude
- Publisher
- Cooper Square Press
- Tags
- travel , history , biography
- ISBN
- 9780815411352
- Date
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 7.57 MB
- Lang
- en
A seeming contradiction, Gertrude Bell was both a proper Victorian and an intrepid explorer of the Arabian wilderness. She was a close friend of T. E. Lawrence, and played an important role in creating the modern map of the Middle East after World War I. The Desert and the Sown is a chronicle, illustrated by over 160 photos, of Bell's 1905 journey from Jericho to Antioch, a land of warring tribes under Turkish control.