A true story of a trailblazing woman who found freedom in the faraway world of the Middle East. Gertrude Bell chafes against the stifling rigidity of life in turn-of-the-century England, leaving it behind for a chance to travel to Tehran. So begins her lifelong adventure across the Arab world: a journey marked by danger, a passionate affair with a British officer, and an encounter with the legendary T.E. Lawrence.
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