![]() Edit Details Syria, the Desert and the Sown Lists with This Book This book is not yet featured on Listopia. 0 reviews Kindle Edition Published December 11th 2021 More Details.This classic work is being republished now in a new edition with specially curated introductory material. Syria, the Desert and the Sown by Gertrude Bell it was amazing 5.00 ![]() T Other notable works by this author include: "Poems from the Divan of Hafiz" (1892), "The Desert and the Sown" (1907), and "Mountains of the Servants of God" (1910). She became an important policy-maker in the British Empire as a result of her extensive knowledge and contacts, which she built up through her numerous travels in Mesopotamia, Greater Syria, Asia Minor, and Arabia. Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (1868-1926) was an English writer, political officer, traveller, archaeologist, and administrator. Lady Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1868-1926) travelled widely in Persia, Palestine, Syria and other eastern countries. His fascinating and insightful account will appeal to those with an interest in Arabia at the start of the twentieth century and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Bell's wonderful work. First published in 1919, "Syria - The Desert and The Sown" is an extensively-illustrated chronicle of Gertrude Bell's 1905 trip from Jericho to Antioch, which was under the control of warring Turkish tribes at the time. ![]()
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