Page 6 - Life of Gertrude Bell

viii ILLUSTRATIONS
Between pages 226 and 227
25 Water well on the Hail route
26 Turkiyyeh, ‘chatterbox’ of the Rashid court at Hail
27 A woman companion at Hail
28 View of Hail
29 The last camp in the Nafud desert
30 Shammar tribesmen outside Hail
31 A playful tribesman at A1 Juwarib
32 Gertrude’s caravan leaving Hail
3 3 Shaikh Abdullah bin Haiya and son
34 Gertrude on her camel in Baghdad

Between pages 242 and 243
35 Churchill’s Cairo Conference, 1921
36 King Faisal, Lord and Lady Lloyd, Gertrude and Sir
Ronald Storrs
37 Gertrude from a drawing by John Sargent

Facsimiles
An extract from Gertrude’s first recorded letter 4
An extract from one of Gertrude’s letters to her
stepmother, Florence 9
Letter to Gertrude from Crown Prince Ghazi 254

Maps
Endpapers: Asiatic Turkey, including Syria and Iraq,
up to 1918
Asiatic Turkey, Syria and Mesopotamia 54-5
Route of Gertrude’s journey to Hail, 1913-14 131