编辑推荐ReviewA dramatic and detailed account of her formidable life...Howell fills the book with enlivening detail...A fluent, celebratory and conservative biography, skating over the injustices of imperialism and taking the kind of romantic approach that makes it read like a Hollywood script-in-waiting. --The Guardian Howell's painstaking research does justice to Bell's political achievements but it is her detailed account of the young Gertrude, careering through the Arabian deserts, bearding sheikhs in their tents and bravely enduring the most extreme of conditions which enthrals. --The Irish Times Sunday Times Culture 'Howell paints a picture of a generous woman struggling against the sexual prejudices of her time.' Sunday Telegraph Seven 'You don't have to share Gertrude Bell's passions in order to be her biographer, but it helps' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Metro 'In the current climate Bell's part in creating modern-day Iraq is particularly resonant.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Traveller Magazine 'Hers is a story well worth telling, and Georgina Howell has done it superbly in this book' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. The Economist 'Excellent...[written] with a skill and clarity worthy of her heroine' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Spectator 'Howell...writes with greater confidence and authority on Bell' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Wanderlust 'the extracts from her letters- smart, passionate, self-depracating- are the best thing about this' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Oxford Times 'A remarkable story...told engagingly and often first-hand via the extensive use of Bell's own prodigious written output' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Catholic Herald 'The intrepid and eventful life of Gertrude Bell is a biographer's dream' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
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