Gertrude Bell: The Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914, Paperback - Rosemary O'Brien

Reducere. The Englishwoman Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life. Her adventures are the stuff of novels: she rode with bandits; braved desert shamals; w...

Dublin 1913My name is Betty Rafferty. A few weeks ago I had to leave school and go out to work in a cake shop, serving fancy cakes to rude, rich pe...

Description"You may rely upon one thing - I'll never engage in creating kings again; it's too great a strain."Gertrude Bell - traveller, scholar, a...

Reducere. Description"Are we the same, I wonder, when all our surroundings, association, acquaintances are changed? I conclude that it is not the person who ...

A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, ...

Reducere. Includes Bell's translation of Hafez, along with the original Persian (Farsi). Also included are Bell's extensive introduction on the life and poet...

Reducere. Discover How Hafiz's Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your OwnHafiz is known throughout the world as Persia's greatest poet, with sales of h...

Reducere. DescriptionThis brilliant, vivid and impressionistic series of sketches, formed during her 1892 stay in Persia, is Gertrude Bell's first published ...

DescriptionSergey Prokofiev, a compulsive diarist and gifted and idiosyncratic writer, possessed an incorrigibly sardonic curiosity about individua...

The Magical Imagination: Magic and Modernity in Urban England, 1780–1914 - Karl Bell

Publisher: Four Courts Press LtdIllustration(s): black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 320Collection: Irish Legal History Society seriesPub...

Reducere. T.E. Lawrence is often credited with bringing diplomacy to the Middle East; in the shadows of every great man you will often find an even greater w...

Beginning on Easter Sunday, March 23, 1913, torrential rains across the Midwest dropped a record three months of rainfall in four days. Floodwaters...

Lets follow Hessa, a critically endangered hawksbill turtle hatchling, as she bravely fights her way from the nest to the sea in one of Abu Dhabis ...

Dainty Dress Diaries grew from Catherine Carton's popular blog and vlog channels, her 'floral, chalk painted, tea dress-wearing, creative corner of...

Reducere. Cartoonist Studio Prize Shortlist 2014For an impoverished cartoonist, I do an awful lot of international traveling.Raw, bare-boned, scathingly funn...

A selection of the best and most important passages from Gertrude Jekyll's many books on gardening, incorporating design and ornament, colour and s...

Publisher: Cune Press, USAuthor(s): John HarteNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 237 x 20Cover type: HardbackRedescopera f...

This book picks up where Rose's last book left off. If Go Forward, Support was all about staying a child as long as possible, this book is all abou...

One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, sometimes called The Arabian Nights Entertainments, is a collection of classic Middle Eastern stories that hav...

Reducere. OUR LORD revealed that the place on earth where He most delighted to be, after the Blessed Sacrament, was ``in the heart and soul of Gertrude, My b...

Reducere. DescriptionFREEDOM OF INFORMATION If you ask, she must answer. A steerswoman's knowledge is shared with any who request it; no steerswoman may refu...

Reducere. This little book was written to carry out the great desire of Jesus to make His Sacred Heart known and loved. It is based on the actual words of Ou...

Reducere. Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein, Paperback

Reducere. WHEN A GUIDESTAR FALLS Two shining lights hung above, motionless in the night sky as the constellations slowly passed behind them. The common folk ...

Reducere. THE BLIND SEARCH How do you find a man? How, if you have never seen him, never heard him described, did not know where he lived? How, if he wished ...

Reducere. In 1930, four decades after the surrender of Geronimo, anthropologist Grenville Goodwin headed south in search of a rumored band of "wild" Apaches ...

Papers from the fiftieth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, the principal international academic forum for research on the Arabian Peninsu...

Reducere. DescriptionA STEERSWOMAN ASKS, AND IS ALWAYS ANSWERED The steerswoman Rowan has learned much about the master-wizard Slado: that his spells are dev...

Humanities studies on the Arabian Peninsular including anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, epigraphy, ethnography, history, language, lin...

The Seminar for Arabian Studies is the longest continually running academic forum for the presentation of cultural heritage research on the Arabian...

Reducere. Lebanese author Wafa Tarnowska opens a window onto the Arab world with her magnificent translation of eight stories from A Thousand and One Nights....

Reducere. The Sky Diaries is the remarkable true story of guardian angels, reincarnation, and one family's journey through multiple lifetimes. It's a tale un...

Reducere. Material Girl . . . Immaculate sexpot . . . Superstar . . . Mother . . . Kabbalah enthusiast . . . For three decades she has defied categorization....

Reducere. Baby Rosemary - born to an Italian teen and a married black man in Detroit in 1946 - is adopted from an agency by a black couple in Saginaw, Michig...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A British expatriate's memoirs of living in Saudi ArabiaPublisher: The Conrad PressAuthor(s): Stuart CrockerNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A warm and affectionate portrait of a city and a people under lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis, from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestsell...

Reducere. St. Alphonsus writes: "a single bad book will be sufficient to cause the destruction of a monastery." Pope Pius XII wrote in 1947 at the beatificat...

What if all our lives were pieces of music? With alternating passages; fast, slow, melancholic, joyful. We make friends with those in the same key ...

Reducere. An unprecedented gathering of the correspondence of one of the great writers of twentieth century, the Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien presents ...

The Arabian Nights: A Companion guides the reader into this celebrated labyrinth of storytelling. It traces the development of the stories from pre...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...