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A Winter in Arabia : A Journey Through Yemen by Freya Stark
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Category: Travel Literature
Freya Stark is most famous for her travels in Arabia at a time when very few men, let alone women, had fully explored its vast hinterlands. In 1934, she made her first journey to the Hadhramaut in what is now Yemen - the first woman to do so alone. Even though that journey ended in disappointment, sickn ...Show more
Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq by Freya Stark
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Category: Travel Literature
The Freya Stark Collection Freya Stark first journeyed to Iraq in 1927. Seven years after the establishment of the British Mandate, the modern state was in its infancy and worlds apart from the country it has since become. During her many years in Iraq, Freya Stark was witness to the rise and fall of th ...Show more
Ionia: A Quest by Freya Stark
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Category: Travel Literature
When Freya Stark travelled along the western coast of Turkey in 1952 she met only one other tourist. Today, this region is the most popular and well-travelled in the country, but to travel with Stark - whose aim was to 'create a guide-book in time' - is to experience Turkey in a richer and more inspirin ...Show more
Perseus in the Wind - A Life of Travel by Freya Stark
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Category: Travel
Written just after the Second World War, Perseus in the Wind (named after the constellation) is perhaps the most personal, and haunting, of all Freya Stark's writings. She muses on the seasons, the effect light has on a landscape at a particular time of day, the smell of the earth after rain, Muslim sai ...Show more
Perseus in the Wind: A Life of Travel by Freya Stark
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Category: Travel Literature
Written just after the Second World War, "Perseus in the Wind" (named after the constellation) is perhaps the most personal, and haunting, of all Freya Stark's writings. She muses on the seasons; the effect light has on a landscape at a particular time of day; the smell of the earth after rain; Muslim s ...Show more
Rome on the Euphrates: The Story of a Frontier by Freya Stark
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Category: Travel Literature
When Roman legions marched into Asia Minor in 200BC, their plan was to secure a buffer zone between the Mediterranean, which they virtually owned, and the area beyond, which they sought to isolate rather than control. Along the long frontier of the Euphrates in Turkey lay the easternmost limits of the R ...Show more
The Lycian Shore : A Turkish Odyssey by Freya Stark
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Category: Travel Literature | Series: Freya Stark Collection
'There are not so many places left where magic reigns without interruption and of all those I know, the coast of Lycia was the most magical.' Lycia, on the southwestern coast of Turkey, is an ancient land steeped in mystery, myth and legend. Home to the fiery chimera and to the great heroes Sarpedon and ...Show more
The Minaret of Djam : An Excursion in Afghanistan by Freya Stark
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Category: Travel Literature | Series: The\Freya Stark Collection
The 12th century minaret of Djam is one of Afghanistan's most celebrated treasures, a magnificent symbol of the powerful Ghorid Empire that once stretched from Iran to India. The second tallest brick minaret in the world, Djam lies in the heart of central Afghanistan's wild Ghor Province. Surrounded by ...Show more
The Valleys of the Assassins: A John Murray Journey by Freya Stark
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Category: Travel Literature | Series: Overcoming Bks.
INTRODUCED BY MONISHA RAJESH, award-winning author of Around the World in 80 Trains 'If I were asked to enumerate the pleasures of travel, this would be one of the greatest among them - that so often and so unexpectedly you meet the best in human nature.' Growing up in near-poverty and denied a formal e ...Show more
The Zodiac Arch by Freya Stark
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Category: Travel
With such tantalising chapters as "In Defence of Smuggling" and "Lunch with Homer" this witty, eye-opening tapestry of writings on travel and a life spent as one of the 20th century's most formidable adventuresses is Freya Stark at her luminous best. In chronological order, spanning an extraordinary 50 ...Show more
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