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Gertrude Bell - The Desert and the Sown (1907)

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The world of adventure and of enterprise, dark with hurrying storms, glittering in raw sunlight, an unanswered question and unanswerable doubt hidden in the fold of every hill.
On travel in the desert

Gertrude Bell

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Gertrude Bell

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Born: July 14, 1868
Died: July 12, 1926 (aged 57)
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