A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert Pattinson and directed by Werner Herzog, and of the documentary Letters from Baghdad, voiced by Tilda Swinton Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg.
One of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century, she turned her back on Victorian society to study at Ox.
Penguin Books A woman in arabia: the writings of the queen of the desert, paperback/gertrude bell
