A seeming contradiction, Gertrude Bell was both a proper Victorian and an intrepid explorer of the Arabian wilderness.
She was a close friend of T.
Lawrence, and played an important role in creating the modern map of the Middle East after World War I.
The Desert and the Sown is a chronicle, illustrated by over 160 photos, of Bell's 1905 journey from Jericho to Antioch, a land of warring tribes under Turkish control.
About the Author Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) made six extended exploratory trips to Arabia.
Rosemary O'Brien lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Cooper Square Press The desert and the sown: the syrian adventures of the female lawrence of arabia, paperback/gertrude bell
