Sara Wheeler

‘I glimpse her ahead of me’ – a solo female traveller follows her hero across Turkey

Gertrude Bell travelled extensively through Turkey before and after the first world war and the author plays dogged detective in her wake

Gertrude Bell with her friend Haji Naji, an Iraqi farmer. [Alamy]
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