The desert and the sown: the Syrian adventures of the female Lawrence of Arabia (1st Cooper Square Press ed.)

A seeming contradiction, Gertrude Bell was both a proper Victorian and an intrepid explorer of the Arabian wilderness.

She was a close friend of T. E. Lawrence, and played an important role in creating the modern map of the Middle East after World War I.

The Desert and the Sown is a chronicle, illustrated by over 160 photos, of Bell's 1905 journey from Jericho to Antioch, a land of warring tribes under Turkish control.