Gertrude Bell
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322pp, 16pp of black and white photographic plates. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on black spine label. Lightly bumped spine head. 'Map' endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some light shelf wear, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. Looks at the extraordinary life and times of the unrelenting traveller, historian, linguist, archaeologist, geographer and prodigious writer whose life took a dramatic turn when she was contacted by the Director of Naval Intelligence in the early days of the First World War.
