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DESERT QUEEN: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia, by Janet Wallach
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Pressestimmen
"A major figure in the creation of modern-day Iraq." –Los Angeles Times "Desert Queen, as timely as today's headlines, plucks Gertrude Bell out of the shadow of Lawrence of Arabia." –The Boston Globe "Wallach has done an outstanding job of bringing Gertrude Bell to life." –The Dallas Morning News "A richly textured biography of a . . . woman who devoted her life to knowing the desert Arabs better, perhaps, than any other European of her day. . . . Wallach comfortably commands the tangled political and diplomatic history of the Middle East." –Chicago Tribune
Klappentext
Turning away from the privileged world of the "eminent Victorians," Gertrude Bell (1868--1926) explored, mapped, and excavated the world of the Arabs. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders, and her connections and information provided the brains to match T. E. Lawrence's brawn. After the war, she played a major role in creating the modern Middle East and was, at the time, considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire. In this masterful biography, Janet Wallach shows us the woman behind these achievements-a woman whose passion and defiant independence were at odds wit the confined and custom-bound England she left behind. Too long eclipsed by Lawrence, Gertrude Bell emerges at last in her own right as a vital player on the stage of modern history, and as a woman whose life was both a heartbreaking story and a grand adventure.
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Taschenbuch: 464 Seiten
Verlag: Anchor (12. Juli 2005)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 9781400096190
ISBN-13: 978-1400096190
ASIN: 1400096197
Größe und/oder Gewicht:
13,2 x 2,5 x 20,3 cm
Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung:
2.0 von 5 Sternen
3 Kundenrezensionen
Amazon Bestseller-Rang:
Nr. 6.495 in Fremdsprachige Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Fremdsprachige Bücher)
Gertrude Bell was a fascinating woman, doing things that women just didn't do in the early part of this century: meeting Arabian royalty (and bandits and terrorists as well), going places uncharted by European men or women, and becoming something of a heroine to many Arabs of high and low rank. But this book, though it starts off well, becomes rough going fairly quickly. It feels as if Wallach quotes extensively from Bell's letters simply because she had access to them, not because they were always interesting or enlightening (though some were). There is lots of repetition (we must hear about once every two or three pages that she drank "bitter coffee"; the phrase "Young Turks" is defined three times, each time slightly differently, inside of about one hundred pages) and inexact detailing (three fairly detailed maps of the Middle East still leave out a number of sites important to the events of the book). By the end, when Bell was doing her most important political work in the construction of modern-day Iraq, I was skimming over the thick accrual of tedious detail that doesn't really bring Bell to life in the way she deserves.
The story of Gertrude Bell is impelling and deserves recognition. Her political feats in the Middle East were outstanding; especially given her gender and the social consciousness of the 1910's and 20's. Unfortunately, Wallach's style of writing severely diminished my interest in the story. Her writing was grossly biased, which detracted from the legitimacy of the recount. Biographies should be more objective than this interpretation of Bell's life. Wallach was irritatingly repetitive at times and surprisingly superficial. The end of the book remains unfulfilling because Wallach does not pursue other realities of Bell's life and death; she relies too heavily on her own preconceived notion of Bell and neglects to include or expound the comments and criticisms of Bell's acquaintances. Other notable detractions: not enough maps, touched too lightly on Bell's archeological achievements, danced around romantic affairs. I find it extremely difficult that the base, flighty woman that Wallach has portrayed could possibly have been the Queen of the Desert, the Khatun. In reality Bell was much more complex than Wallach gave her credit.I was taught that if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. So here's my nice comment: If you are a beginner in the area of Middle Eastern/British history and need a primer, then Desert Queen is a good place to start.
This is a story of such a fascinating woman, but why could not another, less-dry writer have written her story? I find myself believing it will get better and I will be able to "not put it down" later on. However, all I do is put it down for months at a time. Such a story needs to be told and re-told and certainly not be lost to oblivion, but with this version, I am afraid it is a true possibility.
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