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LADY HESTER
QUEEN OF THE EAST
by
LORNA GIBB
Książka używana, w języku angielskim
Stan książki: bdb, zawiera zdjęcia
Oprawa: miękka
Ilość stron: 268
Rok wydania: 2006
Sunday Telegraph
A gripping narrative of a unique woman. [it] vividly evokes the culture and atmosphere of the East.
Independent on Sunday
Lorna Gibb’s gripping and readable new biography … is an elegant, scholarly production
Jan Morris
Clever, irrepressible, dispassionate, amused - a perfect mirror to the life of one of history’s most fantastical women.
Born into the age of revolution, Lady Hester Stanhope had a radical spirit. Following the death of her uncle the Prime Minister William Pitt in 1806, she chose the excitement of travel and adventure over the life of a spinster in polite London society. And she never looked back. Surviving a terrible shipwreck and the scorn of Lord Byron ('that dangerous thing - a female wit'), Lady Hester adopted male Arabic dress, became the Queen of the Bedouin and was the first European woman ever to enter Palmyra. Recovering from the heartbreak of a passionate love affair, she became a political force in Lebanon. In defiance of despotic war lords she offered sanctuary to an oppressed minority, creating a fortress which became a focus of both gossip and awe. Told with all the verve of its subject's life, based on much new source material and extensive travel in Hester's footsteps, Lady Hester traces this extraordinary life from Downing Street to an isolated monastery in the hills of Lebanon - a stunning evocation of a unique and pioneering figure.
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