Authors: Janet Wallach
Tags: #Adventure, #Travel, #Non-Fiction, #Biography, #History
Janet Wallach
Desert Queen
Janet Wallach is the author of
Seraglio
and
Chanel: Her Style and Her Life
, and coauthor, with her husband John Wallach, of three previous books on the Middle East:
The New Palestinians
;
Arafat: In the Eyes of the Beholder
; and
Still Small Voices: The Real Heroes of the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
She lives in New York City and Connecticut.
B
Y
J
ANET
W
ALLACH
Seraglio
Chanel: Her Style and Her Life
Desert Queen
Arafat: In the Eye of the Beholder
(
WITH
J
OHN
W
ALLACH
)
The New Palestinians
(
WITH
J
OHN
W
ALLACH
)
Still Small Voices:
The Real Heroes of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
(
WITH
J
OHN
W
ALLACH
)
Anchor Books Editions, July 1999, 2005
Copyright
©
1996, 2005 by Janet Wallach
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Nan A. Talese, an imprint of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1996.
Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wallach, Janet.
Desert queen : the extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell, adventurer, adviser to kings, ally of Lawrence of Arabia / Janet Wallach. — 1st Anchor Books ed.
p. cm.
Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 1996.
1. Bell, Gertrude Lowthian 1868–1926. 2. Women Orientalists—Biography. 3. Colonial administrators—Great Britain Biography. 4. Colonial administrators—Middle East Biography. I. Title.
DS61.7.B37W35 1999
956′.02′092—dc21
[B] 99-24297
eISBN: 978-0-307-74436-4
v3.1
To John, David and Michael,
who surround me with love
Contents
Afterword to the Anchor Books Edition
The Hashemite Family of Sharif Hussein of Mecca
Acknowledgments