Syria: The Desert and the Sown [Audiobook] download free by Gertrude Bell
- Listen audiobook: Syria: The Desert and the Sown
- Author: Gertrude Bell
- Release date: 2016/8/19
- Publisher: I.B.TAURIS & CO. LTD.
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781780766911
- Rating: 8.94 of 10
- Votes: 574
- Review by: Marissa Samuels
- Review rating: 9.13 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/20
- Duration: 4H22M37S in 256 kbps (70.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-19
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, FLAC, MPEG4, AIFF, WMA, WMA Lossless, MP4, WAV (compression RAR, CBC, TAR.7Z, CBR, LHA, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 352
- Includes a PDF summary of 42 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 31M38S (8.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 'You may rely upon one thing - I'll never engage in creating kings again; it's too great a strain.'Gertrude Bell - traveller, scholar, archaeologist, spy - was one of the most powerful figures in the Middle East in the 20th century. With T.E. Lawrence, she was a significant force behind the Arab Revolt and was responsible for creating the boundaries of the modern state of Iraq, as well as installing the Hashemite dynasty, with Faisal I as king, in Iraq and Transjordan. Her knowledge of the Arab world was forged through decades of travel and the relationships she built across Arabia with tribal leaders and kings, who referred to her as Umm al Mu'mineen, or Mother of the Faithful. In the winter of 1906, she undertook an often dangerous journey through Greater Syria - Damascus, Jerusalem, Beirut, Antioch and Alexandretta - and her portrait of the landscapes, people and customs of a part of the world that very few had explored at the time is now a classic of travel writing. Bell's Syria illuminates a region that continues to preoccupy us today as well as portraying the unique life of a remarkable, still-controversial and ultimately tragic woman.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Travel Writing, Biography: General, Guidebooks
- Download servers: Demonoid, Torrent, Mediafire, MEGA, 4Shared, JustBeamit, FileServe. Compressed in RAR, CBC, TAR.7Z, CBR, LHA, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 21.71 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x27.94mm
- Weight: 299.37g
- Printed by: I.B.Tauris
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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