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Sep 2023
33m 49s

Pat Yale on travelling around Turkey in ...

WILLIAM ARMSTRONG
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Pat Yale on “Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell” (Trailblazer). The book tracks the footsteps of archaeologist, writer and explorer Gertrude Bell, who travelled extensively throughout Anatolia from 1899 until the outbreak of the First World War.

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