First published in 1929, this book contains volume I of "The Letters of Gertrude Bell". Contents include: "1897, Berlin", "1897-1899, Round The World, Dauphina, Etc.", "1899-1900, Jerusalem And The First Desert Journeys", "1900, Desert Excursions From Jerusalem", "1901-1902, Switzerland, Syria, England", "1902-1903, Round The World For The Second Time", "1903-1909, England, Switzerland, Paris", etc. A fascinating insight into the life and mind of a woman who played a major role in establishing administering the modern state of Iraq. Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (1868-1926) was an English writer, political officer, traveller, archaeologist, and administrator. 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. 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). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition with specially curated introductory material.