The Boy In The Mask: The Hidden World of Lawrence of Arabia

by Dick Benson-Gyles, Malcolm Brown

Overview

"This is a stunning biography. It is compelling, lyrical and contains detailed research, travel writing, in-depth analysis of a personality and a fascinating story. The author's research has become a book that will sit alongside other great biographies, and will be referred to and praised for many years to come." -Justine McGrath

This groundbreaking work chronicles the Dick Benson Gyles's quest to uncover previously unexplained areas of the life of T.E. Lawrence, the enigmatic desert fighter, aircraftman and writer. The result of years of painstaking research, it contains new material that throws a completely fresh light on Lawrence's concealed private life. Following an extraordinary journey to find the unknown man behind the many myths, the book's two halves are underpinned by the author's personal mission to reveal the man behind the mask; the secret Lawrence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781843516842
Publisher:	Lilliput Press, Limited, The
Publication date:	03/01/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Dick Benson-Gyles, who lives in Plymouth in the West of England, was educated at Marlborough College and is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. A newspaper journalist for many years, specializing in sports and news coverage, he has also been an archaeologist in Baghdad and TV documentary presenter.

Table of Contents

Illustrations vii

T.E. Lawrence - Chronology xi

Foreword xiii

1 A Meeting 3

2 Irish Initiations 27

3 A Lost Heritage 31

4 A Territorial Root in the Proper Place 43

5 A Huge Grant of County Meath 52

6 Ancestral Voices 62

7 Fashionable Marriage 70

8 The Abandoned Sisters 81

9 A Double Life 92

10 A Standing Civil War 99

11 A Child of Sin 111

12 My Native Land 122

13 Crazed with the Spell of Far Arabia 131

14 The Last and Lingering Troubadour 141

15 I'd Rather Morris Than the World 156

16 The Well at the World's End 174

17 Body and Soul 185

18 The Citadel of My Integrity 192

19 An Imaginary Person of Neutral Sex 199

20 Candidates and Advocates 210

21 The Dark Lady 226

Appendix 1 The Chapman Coat of Arms 251

Appendix 2 Farida al Akle 253

Appendix 3 Chapman of Killua 254

Appendix 4 Lawrence - Funner 256

Appendix 5 Ms of dedicatory poem to Seven Pillars of Wisdom 258

Appendix 6 Map of the Middle East in 1915 259

Appendix 7 Lawrence and Chapman at rest 260

Notes 261

Bibliography 277

Acknowledgments 285

Index 287