This book DESERT QUEEN by JANET WALLACH was amazing! I consider it a must read, this woman was really an amazing lady. Reading through the book was like tagging along with each wild adventure she had! By no means was she perfect and the book seems to show her faults as well as her attributes. In case you have not heard of her here is a little back ground written by me for a paper at school. BE NICE..
Gertrude Bell was born into an affluent family in Britain; rather intelligent, she was allowed schooling from a young age that most girls were denied during her time. She attended Oxford
and become one of the few women to obtain a degree. Her passion seemed to be in history, language, and travel and fell in love with the Middle East. She learned Arabic and became one of the first women to travel across parts of what would later become Iraq. She befriended Bedouins and Sheiks, who offered her some protection traveling in a land that was known to be dangerous for outsiders. Throughout her travels, she observed the culture of various tribes and documented historic sites and even drew maps keeping all her experiences in journals that would later be published (Wallach).
