Traveling desert for country and love.(Books)(On Books)

From: The Washington Times | Date: November 26, 2000| Author: Herman, Carol | Copyright information

In her diary on Jan. 23, 1914 Gertrude Bell - traveler, linguist, archaeologist, scholar, friend to T.E. Lawrence and reputed spy - recorded this observation on the fifth day of what would become a six-month journey in the Arabian Desert:

"There are no words to tell you how bare and forbidding is this land . . . nothing grows, except the scrub in the valley beds. I found a brave little geranium flowering yesterday in the low ground - the only flower I have seen. But ...

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