Syria

About the Book

This exquisite edition does full justice to Gertrude Bell's pioneering text. For the illustrations, new prints of more than 160 of her photographs were taken from the negatives held at Newcastle University – an archive listed in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register for its significance. The stunning geometric designs on the cover and map casing are the work of Yehrin Tong, two-time winner of the V&A Book Cover Illustration Award, and the frontispiece reproduces John Singer Sargent’s striking watercolour of two Bedouins. The new introduction by Dawn Chatty, Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford, provides a biography of Bell’s extraordinary life and achievements, concluding: ‘For anyone who has visited Syria or only read about it, this book will deepen their understanding of its past, and help elucidate their understanding of its present.’

About the Book

This exquisite edition does full justice to Gertrude Bell's pioneering text. For the illustrations, new prints of more than 160 of her photographs were taken from the negatives held at Newcastle University – an archive listed in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register for its significance. The stunning geometric designs on the cover and map casing are the work of Yehrin Tong, two-time winner of the V&A Book Cover Illustration Award, and the frontispiece reproduces John Singer Sargent’s striking watercolour of two Bedouins. The new introduction by Dawn Chatty, Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford, provides a biography of Bell’s extraordinary life and achievements, concluding: ‘For anyone who has visited Syria or only read about it, this book will deepen their understanding of its past, and help elucidate their understanding of its present.’

About the Book

This exquisite edition does full justice to Gertrude Bell's pioneering text. For the illustrations, new prints of more than 160 of her photographs were taken from the negatives held at Newcastle University – an archive listed in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register for its significance. The stunning geometric designs on the cover and map casing are the work of Yehrin Tong, two-time winner of the V&A Book Cover Illustration Award, and the frontispiece reproduces John Singer Sargent’s striking watercolour of two Bedouins. The new introduction by Dawn Chatty, Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford, provides a biography of Bell’s extraordinary life and achievements, concluding: ‘For anyone who has visited Syria or only read about it, this book will deepen their understanding of its past, and help elucidate their understanding of its present.’

About the Book

This exquisite edition does full justice to Gertrude Bell's pioneering text. For the illustrations, new prints of more than 160 of her photographs were taken from the negatives held at Newcastle University – an archive listed in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register for its significance. The stunning geometric designs on the cover and map casing are the work of Yehrin Tong, two-time winner of the V&A Book Cover Illustration Award, and the frontispiece reproduces John Singer Sargent’s striking watercolour of two Bedouins. The new introduction by Dawn Chatty, Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford, provides a biography of Bell’s extraordinary life and achievements, concluding: ‘For anyone who has visited Syria or only read about it, this book will deepen their understanding of its past, and help elucidate their understanding of its present.’