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Biography
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408 pages, Casebound 229x152mm, Portrait
8 page colour section 8 page black and white section |
ISBN-10: 1900988577 ISBN-13: 9781900988575
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Lady Anne Blunt: A Biography
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This book tells the remarkable story of a woman who, despite astounding achievements, has remained strangely obscure until now.
Lady Anne Blunt is probably best known for her family connections and for her tempestuous marriage to the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, with whom she travelled to the tribal regions of the Euphrates, to the Nejd and the Central Arabian Nafud desert. Anne sketched and wrote as she confronted the dangers of tribal warfare, painting watercolours in rare moments of peace. She is the first European woman to make a recorded journey to Central Arabia. Among her many achievements was the rescue of the Arab horse from the ill effects of indiscriminate breeding, ignorance and neglect. She is regarded by many equine authorities as the saviour of the true thoroughbred 'Arabian'.
This biography, published in association with the new Anglo-Arab publishing house Barzan Press, is a deeply researched and engagingly told record of a noble life. |
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| H.V.F. Winstone - Author of Gertrude Bell and Lady Anne Blunt. Gertrude Bell was one of H.V.F. Winstone's first biographical subjects, following his much-admired account of the life of Captain Shakespear. He has subsequently written major biographies of Colonel Leachman, Sir Leonard Woolley and Howard Carter. He has also written the first full biography of Lady Anne Blunt. He lives with his wife and two elderly greyhounds in Devon.
H.V.F. Winstone's website
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