Amurath to Amurath - Couverture rigide

Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist (and possible spy) who explored, mapped, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making due to her knowledge and contacts, built up through extensive travels in Greater Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Arabia. Along with T. E. Lawrence, Bell helped support the Hashemite dynasties in what is today Jordan as well as in Iraq.

Gertrude Bell’s personal account of her five month journey, in 1909, through what is now Syria, Iraq, and Turkey. This volume is a priceless compendium of her observations on both the physical and cultural landscape of the region. Her journey coincided with a time of great upheaval and bloodshed in the Ottoman Empire, a time when one Amurath (Ottoman Sultan) gave way to the next.