Arabian
Sands
by Wilfred Thesiger
Thesiger greatly illuminates our understanding of the nomadic bedouins
of Arabia. He loved, admired, respected and was humbled by a people who
lived desparately hard lives in the harshest conditions with only a few
possessions that might include saddles, ropes, bowls, goatskins, rifles
and daggers and traveled days without food and water. Amazon.com
Paperback Reprint edition (March 1985)
Viking Press; ISBN: 0140095144 |
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Arab
War Lords and Iraqi Star Gazers: Gertrude Bell's the Arab of Mesopotamia
by Paul Rich (Editor)
(Paperback - February 2001)
Baghdad
Without a Map: And Other Misadventures in Arabia
by Tony Horwitz
(Paperback - January 1992)
The
Hafez Poems of Gertrude Bell: With the Original Persian on the Facing Page
(Classics of Persian Literature ; 1)
by Hafiz, et al
(Paperback - June 1995)
Amurath
to Amurath, a Five Month Journey Along the Banks of the Euphrates
by Gertrude Lowthian Bell
(Paperback - February 2002)
Black
Tents of Arabia : (My Life Among the Bedouins)
by Carl R. Raswan
An account of some 22 years spent with the Bedouin, first published
in 1935.
Paperback: 222 pages
Ruminator Books; ISBN: 1886913218; Reprint edition (June
1998)
Desert
Queen : The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell : Adventurer, Advisor to
Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
Janet Wallach
A biography of the woman who, indirectly, was the catalyst for many
of the troubles in the Middle East, including the Gulf War. In 1918, Gertrude
Bell drew the region's proposed boundaries on a piece of tracing paper.
Her qualifications for doing so were her extensive travel, her fluency
in both Persian and Arabic, and her relationships with sheiks and tribal
and religious leaders. She also possessed an ability to understand the
subtle and indirect politeness of the culture, something many of her colonialist
comrades were oblivious to. As a self-made statesman her sex was an asset,
enabling her to bypass the ladder of protocol and dive into the business
of building an Empire. Amazon.com
Paperback - 419 pages (July 20, 1999)
Anchor Books; ISBN: 0385495757 |
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Mysteries
of the Desert: A View of Saudi Arabia
by Isabel Cutler (Photographer)
(Hardcover - September 2001)
Gertrude
Bell: The Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914
by Rosemary O'Brien (Editor), Gertrude Bell (Photographer)
Hardcover: 224 pages
Syracuse Univ Pr (Trade); ISBN: 0815606729; (November
2000)
Sand
Dance: By Camel Across Arabia's Great Southern Desert
by Bruce Kirkby
(Paperback - April 2002)
Sandstorms:
Days and Nights in Arabia
by Peter Theroux
(Paperback - August 1991)
Incidents
of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land
by John Lloyd Stephens, Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen (Editor)
(Paperback - July 1996)
Personal
Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccah (Volume 2)
by Richard Francis Burton
(Paperback - 1964)
The Churches and Monasteries of the Tur 'Abdin
by Gertrude Lowthian Bell
(Hardcover - January 1982)
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The Desert and the Sown: The Syrian Adventures of the Female Lawrence
of Arabia
by Gertrude Bell, et al
(Paperback - December 2001)
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The Valleys of the Assassins
by Freya Stark
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Adventures in Arabia: Among the Bedouins, Druses, Whirling Dervishes
and Yezidee Devil Worshipers (Armchair Traveller Series)
by William B. Seabrook
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