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The Arabian nights of Gertrude Bell
The Hudson Review; 10/1/2001; Mullen, Alexandra; 3109 words
; ... To do so, she had to hide ammunition in her shoe heels and maps under petticoats to get through Turkish customs, sign waivers ... betwen the Hejaz Railway on the one flank and the Sirhan and Nefud on the other, particularly about the Howaitat group" which was ...
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(book reviews)
The Geographical Journal; 7/1/1998; Samson, Jane; 473 words
; ... in 1913, she became the first European fully to explore the Nefud and Nejd deserts and their peoples, winning the RGS Gold Medal ... no chart showing the tracks of her various expeditions, only maps showing changes to political boundaries in the Middle East ...
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Ostrich distribution and exploitation in the Arabian peninsula.
Antiquity; 3/1/2001; POTTS, D.T.; 4666 words
; ... Winnett & Reed 1970: figure 4; Koenig 1971: s.v. index `Autruche'), the Jawf-Sakaka region (Parr et al. 1978: 48) and the Nefud (Howe 1950: 9, with references). Ostrich petroglyphs can also be found in the central-western (Zarins et al. 1980: 31) and south-centr ...
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Books: Liar, liar, his reputation's on fire
The Independent - London; 1/17/1999; Nicholas Fearn; 1162 words
; ... endurance - the 49- hour camel dash from Aqaba to Cairo to break the news of the port's fall. Asher and company have to walk through minefields ... of his servant in cold blood and the rescue of Gasim from the Nefud Desert, "the anvil of the sun" - countless engagements were ...
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The articulation of imperial decadence and decline in epic science fiction.(Critical essay)
Extrapolation; 6/22/2007; DiTommaso, Lorenzo; 11743 words
; ... Umman Kudu, the captain of the Baron's guard, was a man to be trusted because the captain's vices were known (176). Iakin Nefud, who is promoted to captain of the guard after Kudu's death, is a drug addict; again, the Baron recognizes that this flaw will ...
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Queen of the desert
Scotland on Sunday; 3/30/2003; Jackie McGlone; 2401 words
; ... authorities, she courageously sought out the powerful sheikhs of the Howeitat and secured their protection. After crossing the Nefud to Hail, Bell was held prisoner for a fortnight by Ibn Rashid, the third most powerful ruler in Arabia (numbers one and two ...
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Traveling desert for country and love.(Books)(On Books)
The Washington Times; 11/26/2000; Herman, Carol; 1327 words
; ... with the blood of her husband and children. Then there are Bell's encounters with robbing Nomads and the barren plains of the Nefud Dessert, her arrival, at last in Hayyil, where she is kept under house arrest for 10 days, and finally her return to Damascus ...
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The bluestocking and the sheikh
The Independent - London; 12/8/1996; FRANK MCLYNN; 784 words
; ... Turkish authorities, she cleverly sought out the powerful sheikhs of the Howeitat and secured their protection. After crossing the Nefud to Hayil, she was held prisoner for a fortnight by the third most powerful ruler in Arabia, ibn Rashid (the "big two" were the ...
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Appreciation; Lean's classic epic takes no prisoners.(Scene)
The Boston Herald; 11/1/2002; Verniere, James; 570 words
; ... their own and make us inhabit them. I can still recall the (vicarious?) thirst I experienced watching Lawrence contend with the Nefud Desert's anvil of the sun in his suicidal mission to rescue an Arab friend (as I remember, we were unable to visit the concession ...
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Those at top can learn from man who went to the bottom.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 2/15/2001; Johnson, Cecil; 700 words
; ... ultimate escape over turbulent, frigid seas and through perilous expanses of drifting ice makes T.E. Lawrence's trek through the Nefud Desert seem like child's play. But all 27 survived, and credit for that goes to Shackleton's leadership. Morrell and Capparrall ...
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