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The desert and the sown
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ISBN: 051170321X 110802159X Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Athletic, intellectual and sensitive, Gertrude Bell was an ideal chronicler for a public fascinated by the Orient. Blending descriptions of customs, communities, archaeology, agriculture, The Desert and the Sown recounts a dramatic portion of her expedition across Syria. Enriched by over 300 photographic illustrations, Bell's prose leads readers from the Mosque of 'Umar to the shores of the Dead Sea, the Castle of Salkhad and the dramatic landmarks of Kanawat. Notwithstanding the inclusion of such picturesque sites, the author never allows the spectacular to overshadow the significant. As she herself professed, her narrative contains frequent references to the 'conditions of unimportant persons', arguing that 'they do not appear so unimportant to one who is in their midst'. This volume reflects a compassionate and respectful attitude to other civilizations.

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Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, --- Travel --- Syria --- Lebanon --- Palestine --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel --- Bell, Gertrude, --- Bil, Girtrūd Mārgrit Laws̲iyān, --- بل، گرترد --- Liban --- République libanaise --- Libanon --- Lubnān --- Libanan --- Livan --- Mont-Liban (Turkey : Mutaṣarrifīyah) --- Jabal Lubnān (Turkey : Mutaṣarrifīyah) --- Levanon --- Líbano --- Livanos --- Grand Lebanon --- Grand Liban --- Lebanese Republic --- Jumhūrīyah al Lubnānīyah --- Jumhouriya al-Lubnaniya --- Republic of Lebanon --- لبنان --- جمهورية اللبنانية --- Ліван --- Ліванская Рэспубліка --- Livanskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Ливан --- Република Ливан --- Republika Livan --- Λίβανος --- Δημοκρατία του Λιβάνου --- Dēmokratia tou Livanou --- Jumhūrīyyah al-Lubnānīyyah --- 레바논 --- לבנון --- רפובליקה הלבנונית --- Republiḳah ha-Levanonit --- Либан --- Либанска Република --- Libanska Republika --- レバノン --- Rebanon --- レバノン共和国 --- Rebanon Kyōwakoku --- Ливанская Республика --- Республіка Ліван --- Respublika Livan --- Ліванська Республика --- Livansʹka Respublyka --- Levonen --- 黎巴嫩 --- Libanen --- Sirii︠a︡ --- Iqlīm al-Sūrī (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Shamālī (United Arab Republic) --- Syrian Region (United Arab Republic) --- سوريا --- Sūriyā --- Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah al-Sūrīyah --- Syrian Arab Republic --- République arabe syrienne --- Sowria --- Syrie --- R.A.S. --- RAS --- Ittiḥād al-Duwal al-Sūrīyah --- Fédération des États de Syrie --- Syrische Arabische Republik --- SAR --- Suryah --- Arabska Republika Syryjska --- Syrien --- Jumhuriya al-Arabya as-Suriya --- Repubblica Araba Siriana --- جمهورية العربية السورية --- Jumhūriyyah al-ʻArabiyyah as-Sūriyyah --- Сірыя --- Siryi︠a︡ --- Сірыйская Арабская Рэспубліка --- Siryĭskai︠a︡ Arabskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Сирийската арабска република --- Siriĭskata arabska republika --- Συρία --- Αραβική Δημοκρατία της Συρίας --- Aravikē Dēmokratia tēs Syrias --- 시리아 --- Siria --- סוריה --- רפובליקה הערבית הסורית --- Republiḳah ha-ʻArvit ha-Surit --- シリア --- Shiria --- Сирия --- Сирийская Арабская Республика --- Siriĭskai︠a︡ Arabskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Сирія --- Syrii︠a︡ --- Сирійська Арабська республіка --- Syriĭsʹka Arabsʹka respublika --- 敘利亞 --- Xuliya --- United Arab Republic --- Holy Land


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Safar Nameh : Persian Pictures: A Book of Travel
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ISBN: 1139162330 1108042031 Year: 1894 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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This book of 'Persian Pictures' is the first published work of Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), the celebrated traveller, archaeologist, Orientalist and supporter of Arab independence. She first visited Persia in 1892, when a relative by marriage was British minister there, and published her impressions in a series of essays in 1894. Her subjects range from Roman ruins to Ottoman graves to shopping in the bazaars, and from the bustling life of cities to the isolation of the desert. Having studied the Persian language in preparation for her journey, she was able to enter into the life of the country, and especially of its women, more deeply than a casual visitor, and indeed her second publication was a free-verse translation of the fourteenth-century poet Hafiz. Bell captures a sense of delight at a mysterious land still marked by the traces of many of the great civilisations of the past.


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Syria, the Desert & the Sown
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Project Gutenberg

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Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Project Gutenberg

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Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture
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Syria : the desert and the sown
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Year: 1928 Publisher: London Heinemann

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Syria, the desert and the sown
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ISBN: 1536191701 9781536191707 1536191388 9781536191387 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York, New York : Snova,

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The desert and the sown
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ISBN: 9780511703218 9781108021593 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Middle East --- Syria --- Lebanon --- Palestine


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Safar Nameh : Persian Pictures: A Book of Travel
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ISBN: 9781139162333 9781108042031 Year: 1894 Publisher: Place of publication unknown:Cambridge publisher unknown,Cambridge University Press

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Amurath to Amurath,
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Year: 1924 Publisher: London : Macmillan and co., limited,

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