Blogs about: Gertrude Bell

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☆ Ten Inspirational Women Travelers ☆

☆☆ Martinha ☆☆ wrote 4 weeks ago: No, we likely wouldn’t publish a list of 10 inspirational male travelers. But men and women experi … more →

Tags: ☆ Ten Inspirational Women Travelers ☆, Food Writing, History / Travel, Politics, travel photography, Travel Writing, womens travel, Australia & Pacific, Africa

Les espions de l'or noir, par Gilles Munier

merryabla64 wrote 2 months ago: NOUVEAU LIVRE Les espions de l’or noir, par Gilles Munier (Ed. Koutoubia) Dédicace : le mercredi 29 … more →

Tags: Turkmens, Gilles Munier, Espions de l'Or Noir, St. John Philby, Kermit Roosevelt, Pétrole

Anti-war Briton Emma Sky is helping to reshape Iraq

Lys Anzia wrote 3 months ago: Deborah Haynes in Baghdad – The Times (London) – Mon 13 April, 2009 Emma Sky, above, wa … more →

Tags: Women News Network Breaking News Portal, breaking women's news, international women's breaking news, women's breaking news, global women's breaking news, women's rights breaking news, World News, Women News Network - WNN, world news women

Does the Dog Die? A Brief Review of Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations, by Georgina Howell

esheley wrote 3 months ago: I finished this book over a week ago and have delayed reviewing it for one reason: Gertrude Bell was … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Travel, animals, History, Biography, T. E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, georgina howell, middle east

Does the Dog Die? A Brief Review of Dreamers of the Day, by Mary Doria Russell

esheley wrote 4 months ago: Born in the 1880s, Agnes Shanklin thought she was going to be a pale shadow of a person, living with … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Travel, History, Dogs, Mary Doria Russell, Egypt, T. E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, winston churchill

A Selection of Shirts

erikaflorence wrote 6 months ago: To see a larger image of this drawing click here. 11.5″ x 14″ ink on Strathmore Dry Med … more →

Tags: Illustration, Art, Drawing, Figurative, History

Happy New Year!2 comments

elizabethwong wrote 6 months ago: It’s been a while since I connected to the hive (no internet, no phones = bliss), hence the b … more →

Tags: miscellanous, new year, COLETTE, Palestine, iraq

When I grow up, I want to be like them1 comment

mocove wrote 1 year ago: Alexandra David-Neel and Gertrude Bell, two world travelers born in the 1800’s whose accomplis … more →

Tags: Biographies, Alexandra David-Néel

Books to Consider - February 2008

lkleinholz wrote 1 year ago: Ann Patchett: Truth and Beauty – Nonfiction about friendship of two writers. Doris Lessing … more →

Tags: Book Club, Novels, Books to consider, Ann Patchett, Doris Lessing, Liam Callanan, Edith Wharton, Lampedusa, Marguerite Yourcenar

New Empire Builders - Neo-Cons Sneaking In2 comments

Anuraag Sanghi wrote 1 year ago: This North-South global compact … would consign … despotisms to the obscurity which the … more →

Tags: Canada, Africa, Australia, Ottoman Empire, Slavery, Russia, Foreign Policy, Islam, Oil

Books to Consider - January 20082 comments

lkleinholz wrote 1 year ago: Ann Patchett – Truth and Beauty – Nonfiction about friendship of two writers. Marisha … more →

Tags: Book Club, Books to consider, Ann Patchett, Doris Lessing, Liam Callanan, Marisha Pessi, Sarah Waters, Edith Wharton

#54 ~ Dreamers of the Day

Literate Housewife wrote 1 year ago: Dreamers of the Day: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell This novel tells the story of Agnes Shanklin, a … more →

Tags: Books, Reading, Culture, Brain Food for Thought, Secrets and Lies, Life, Historical Fiction, Family, librarything

Ruins, Graves, and Poems

marthame wrote 1 year ago: Today was a varied and rich day. Our first stop was Persepolis. Wow. I have been fortunate enough to … more →

Tags: Travel, Iran, Persia, darius, Esther, Daniel, Achaemenids, Shiraz, Isfahan

Getting to Know T.E. Lawrence (“of Arabia”)4 comments

Ron Pavellas wrote 1 year ago: As I wrote in an earlier post I have been reading T.E. Lawrence: The Selected Letters. I finished re … more →

Tags: Books and Literature, Government, History, Geography, Biography, TE Lawrence, Ezra Pound, George Bernard Shaw, Hejaz


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