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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 October 2011
      28 October 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511703218
      9781108021593
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511703218
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 376 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, History, Middle East History, English Literature 1900-1945
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, History, Middle East History, English Literature 1900-1945
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
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    Athletic, intellectual and sensitive, even in her youth, 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 (1907) recounts a dramatic portion of her expedition across Syria. Enriched by over three hundred 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 Kanawāt. 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'. As such, this volume reflects a compassionate and respectful attitude to other civilizations, the implications of which are as significant today as they were to Bell's contemporaries.

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