Queen of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell [Audiobook] download free by Georgina Howell
- Listen audiobook: Queen of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell
- Author: Georgina Howell
- Release date: 2015/7/12
- Publisher: PAN MACMILLAN
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9781447286264
- Rating: 7.58 of 10
- Votes: 95
- Review by: Tristan Harness
- Review rating: 9.23 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/28
- Duration: 6H40M in 256 kbps (108.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-19
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, WMA, AC3, MPEG4, FLAC, Apple Lossless, WAV (compression RAR, CBC, CAB, ZIP, ALZ)
- Total pages original book: 544
- Includes a PDF summary of 52 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 38M31S (10.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, mountaineer and nation builder, Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty, but she turned her back on all that for her passion for the Arab peoples, becoming the architect of the independent kingdom of Iraq and seeing its first king Faisal safely onto the throne in 1921. Queen of the Desert is her story, vividly told and impeccably researched, drawing on Gertrude's own writings, both published and unpublished. Previously published as Daughter of the Desert, this is a compelling portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class and age and in so doing created a remarkable and enduring legacy.'What a great Oscar-laden biopic this will make ...the combination of epic scenes and personal drama makes Georgina Howell's saga a winner' Daily Express'Howell sketches in the gradations of colour and emotion that have been lacking in hitherto monochrome accounts of Bell's life ... Exemplary' Sunday Times'Riveting ... few women have had a life more worth reading about.' Diana Athill, Literary Review
- Other categories, genre or collection: Travel Writing, Biography: Historical, Political & Military, International Relations
- Download servers: FreakShare, FileServe, Torrents.me, Google Drive, Torrent, Novafile, JustBeamit, Dropbox, BitShare. Compressed in RAR, CBC, CAB, ZIP, ALZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 13.34 USD
- Dimensions: 130x197x35mm
- Weight: 406g
- Printed by: Pan Books
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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