A new selection of inspiring writings from Gertrude Bell, a pioneering British diplomat, archaeologist and explorer of the Middle East, soon to be the basis of a major new film.

First published in 1929, this book contains volume II of Gertrude Bell’s Letters. Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was an English writer, political officer, traveller, archaeologist, and administrator. She became an…

Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its…

During World War I, Georgina Howell worked her way up from spy to army major to become one of the most powerful woman in the British Empire. After the defeat…

This is a collection of summaries, diary entries and letters from the famed British explorer, Gertrude Bell who later went on to become an adviser to Winston Churchill and founded…

The Englishwoman Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life. She rode with bandits, braved desert shamals and was captured by Bedouins. This volume of three of her notebooks preserves Bell’s elegant…

E.G. Browne has commented: Bells translations are true poetry of a very high order and, with perhaps the single exception of FitzGeralds paraphrase of The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, are…

Blending accounts of customs and communities with over three hundred photographs, Bell leads readers from the Mosque of ‘Umar to Kanawat and the Dead Sea. Although often picturesque, the significant…