Rosemary O'Brien is a journalist and editor. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Bell's admirers will be grateful to O'Brien for this account, the
hazardous journey that earned Bell the Royal Geographical medal.--
"International History Review"
No European had ventured in Arabia's sands for 20 years, and her
notes give the reader a unique sense of the nomadic Bedouin who
inhabited them and the sometimes beautiful, sometimes terrifying
terrain they traveled across.-- "Middle East Journal"
O'Brien includes both diaries and enlivens them with truly
outstanding examples of some of the 6000 photographs Bell
tookduring her life in the East.-- "Hudson Review"
This is a handsome book, a pleasing read, and has many entrancing
photographs from Gertrude Bell's collection.-- "Middle Eastern
Studies"
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