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A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
A portrait in her own words of one of the great woman adventurers of the 20th century--the "female Lawrence of Arabia"--and the subject of two upcoming major motion pictures A...
The Virago Book Of Women Travellers.
Some of the extraordinary women whose writings are including in this collection are observers of the world in which they wander; their prose rich in description, remarkable in detail. Mary...
The Geographical Journal: Vol. Lxx No. 1
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor nearly two centuries, The Geographical Journal has stood as the preeminent voice of geographical scholarship, and this...
The Supreme Desire
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Author: Gertrude PageBinding: HardbackPublished: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1916Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling romantic drama, The...
In Search of the Nomads: An English Obsession from Hester Stanhope to
Some, like Lady Hester Stanhope and the Hon. Jane Digby, were exiles from 19th-century high society; others were footloose adventurers, like Richard Burton and T.E. Lawrence. There were distinguished literary...
Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East
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The Thousand And One Churches
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Author: Sir William M. Ramsay And Gertrude L. BellBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1909Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe Thousand and One Churches by William M....
The Immeasurable World: A Desert Journey
Author: William Atkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 For all the desert's dreamlike beauty, to travel here was not just to pitch yourself into oblivion: it was...
Dreamers Of The Day
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Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration
100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. We are always captivated by tales of courage and bravery, of world-firsts and death-defying...
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
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Between the Apple Blossom and the Water
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Taken from gardening books, novels and poems by women published between 1860 and 1935, this book reveals a passion for gardening. There is practical advice from gardeners such as Gertrude...
Three Lives
Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped...
Woman of the Year: A Novel
Author: Darcey Bell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A deliciously twisty thriller about the dark side of female friendship and a revenge plot that gets a little out of...
Woman In The Mirror: An Australian Autobiography (SIGNED)
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Signed with inscriptionA warm and candid work of Australian autobiography, "Woman in the Mirror" traces the life of Isabel Grace Bell across the...
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife - 'Strikingly accomplished . . . utterly
SHORTLISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS BOOK AWARD 2025 'Strikingly accomplished . . . utterly compelling.' SUNDAY TIMES 'A masterpiece of biography.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A total joy to read.'...
About Face: Contemporary Portrait Painting in Australia and New
From the Australian Book Industry-Award winning author of Australian Abstract . 'Containing a sublime collection of works, Amber Creswell Bell's book is a deeply fascinating insight into Antipodean portraiture.' -...
Five Bells
Winner of the Kibble Literary Award, Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature, The ALS Gold Medal, the Barbara Jefferiss Prize and the...
No Small Shame: One wrong choice will change her life forever
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The Autobiography Of Alice B. Toklas
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. One of the most celebrated works of literary modernism, The Autobiography of...
Gertrude Lawrence As Mrs. A: An Intimate Biography Of The Great Star By Her Husband
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Author: Richard Stoddard AldrichBinding: HardbackPublished: Readers Book Club in association with The Companion Book Club, London, 1956Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis...
The Poison Principle: A Memoir About Family Secrets And Literary Poisonings
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Author: Gail BellBinding: PaperbackPublisher: Picador, 2001Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe memoir The Poison...
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife - 'Strikingly accomplished . . . utterly
'A total joy to read.' SARAH BAKEWELL 'Thrillingly intelligent and original . . . A breakthrough in biographical form.' EDMUND GORDON 'A discerning literary biography and a page-turning whodunit.' LISA...
Gertrude Lawrence As Mrs. A
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: -This compelling biography, Gertrude Lawrence As Mrs. A, chronicles the extraordinary life...
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife - 'Strikingly accomplished . . . utterly
'A total joy to read.' SARAH BAKEWELL 'Thrillingly intelligent and original . . . A breakthrough in biographical form.' EDMUND GORDON 'A discerning literary biography and a page-turning whodunit.' LISA...
Alexander Graham Bell: The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) changed the world. This biography is a fully illustrated look at the man, his most famous invention - the telephone - and his myriad other achievements....
Alexander Graham Bell: The Spirit of Innovation
In 1876, at only 29 years old, Alexander Graham Bell completed the invention that would turn him into a household name: the telephone. What began as a tool for his...
The Open Air: An Anthology Of English Country Life
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Author: Adrian BellBinding: HardbackPublished: FABER AND FABER LIMITEDCondition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: First EditionThis anthology, The Open Air: An Anthology Of English Country Life, presents a rich tapestry...
The Case Of Mary Bell
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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn 1968, the city of Newcastle upon Tyne was shaken to its core when eleven-year-old Mary Bell was convicted of the manslaughter...
For Whom the Bell Tolls
This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition. Hemingway's great...
Virginia Woolf: A Biography; Virginia Stephen 1882-1912; Mrs Woolf 1912-1941
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew literary lives have been as turbulent, brilliant, and ultimately tragic as that of Virginia Woolf — and few biographers were as uniquely placed...
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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Author: Gertrude Stein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: For Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday...
For Whom the Bell Tolls
'The best fictional report of the Spanish Civil War that we possess' Anthony Burgess Hemingway's great novel of the Spanish Civil War 'The world is a fine place and worth...
Mothertongues
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Paris France
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books \"All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with...
My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction
'In one short and sly book after another, Levy writes about characters navigating swerves of history and sexuality, and the social and personal rootlessness that accompanies both' Atlantic Who was...
Cairo 1921: Ten Days that Made the Middle East
The first comprehensive history of the 1921 Cairo Conference which reveals its enduring impact on the modern Middle East Called by Winston Churchill in 1921, the Cairo Conference set out...
The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
For Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and 'it was like a kaleidoscope slowly...
The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon - Duchess of Marlborough
Author: Hugo Vickers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 **The Times and Sunday Times Books of the Year 2020** 'This biography is truly wonderful - a masterclass in storytelling' Sunday...
Remembering C. A. Bell
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Author: Malcolm Dan, Ian Rutherford, David CastleBinding: HardbackPublished: Self-published, 2009Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsRemembering C. A. Bell is a poignant exploration of the life and legacy of...