Tales from the Queen of the Desert Christina R. Darlington Based on exclusive interviews and

Based on exclusive interviews and extensive archival research

full-length feature film

Jonathan Craig

ISBN10: 0060920440

Tales from the Queen of the Desert Christina R. Darlington Based on exclusive interviews andExtracts from two of Bell's most compelling works of travel writing, Persian Pictures and Syria: The Desert and the Sown, as well as some of her most fascinating letters A woman far ahead of her time, Gertrude gained a first from Oxford at a time when very few subjects were even open to women. She went on to take an active interest in politics before embarking on her one woman travels across the Middle East. She chronicled her journeys through Iraq,