Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark more books like this

by Jane Fletcher Geniesse

In telling the dramatic story of the long life of explorer, Arabist, and writer Freya Stark, this biography seeks to expose the insecurity and self-contempt that lay behind Stark's passions for achievement and adventure. A New York Times Notable Book in 1999.

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Baghdad sketches more books like this

by Freya Stark

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The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut more books like this

by Freya Stark

In 1934, famed British traveler Freya Stark sailed down the Red Sea, alighting in Aden, located at the tip of the Arabian peninsula. From this backwater outpost, Stark set forth on what was to be her most unforgettable adventure: Following the ancient frankincense routes of the Hadhramaut Valley, the most fertile in Arabia, she sought to be the ...

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Freya Stark more books like this

by Caroline Moorehead

The autobiography of the independent and unorthodox woman whose expeditions to Persia and the Hadhramaut during the 1930s established her reputation as a traveler, writer, geographer, and archaeologist.

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The Journey's Echo: Selections from Freya Stark more books like this

by Freya Stark, Lawrence Durrell (Foreword by)

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Freya Stark in Southern Arabia more books like this

by Freya Stark, Malise Ruthven (Editor)

The magnificent canyons of Wadi Hadhramaut inspired Freya Stark to produce some of her best photographs. Dame Freya's particular empathy with local people resulted in charming pictures of people she worked or travelled with, and the homes and costumes of the period.

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Traveller Through Time: 2a Photographic Journey with Freya Stark more books like this

by Malise Ruthven

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Beyond Euphrates more books like this

by Stark

This sequel to "Traveller's Prelude" describes the author's journeys to the East, embarked upon in 1928. Through the medium of letters and extracts from her diary, she describes her life in Baghdad, her experiences in a harem in Damascus, journeys to Persia and a treasure hunt in Luristan. Dame Freya Stark has also written "The Coat of Incense", ...

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Freya Stark : a biography more books like this

by Molly Izzard

Traveller and explorer, woman of letters, photographer and an experienced Arabist whose secret propaganda activities during World War II established her as a spokeswoman on Middle East affairs, Freya Stark is a living legend. Does exceptional achievement justify the hyperbole, or is Freya Stark's reputation entirely a product of her own highly ...

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Freya Stark in Persia more books like this

by Freya Stark, Malise Ruthven (Editor)

Freya Stark's most famous work, Valley of the Assassins, stems from this period, and indeed she was so intrepid in venturing into remote areas of Luristan that the governor of Husainabad commented, "No wonder that yours is a powerful nation. Your women do what our men are afraid to attempt". This volume includes much previously unpublished ...

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Freya Stark in the Levant more books like this

by Freya Stark, Malise Ruthven (Editor)

In 1927 Freya Stark stayed in Beirut, taking lessons to improve her Arabic, before moving on to Damascus in 1928. Returning in 1939 to Aleppo, and again in the 1950s to explore the deserted Byzantine cities of the Orontes valley, for Freya Stark the Levant was the foundation for her love of the Middle East. This volume includes some of her best ...

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Perseus in the wind more books like this

by Freya Stark

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Southern Gates of Arabia more books like this

by Stark

In 1935, the author set out to explore the wild, desert mountains, the palaces and cities of Hadramaut and travelled the Incense Route inland from the southern shores of Arabia. Along the way she encountered Sultans and Bedouin tribespeople, the harem women of Do'an and the Mansab of Meshed. This is the story of her travels. The author also wrote ...

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Southern Gates Arab more books like this

by Freya Stark

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Freya Stark in Iraq and Kuwait more books like this

by Freya Stark, Malise Ruthven (Editor)

In the early 1930s, Freya Stark held her only journalist's job, as a sub-editor on the Baghdad Times, where she published her first book, Baghdad Sketches. Her photographs of the Yazidis are unique, and her travels in Kurdistan now seem particularly poignant. In Kuwait she photographed pearl fishers, the Marsh Arabs and various residents of the ...

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Coast of Incense more books like this

by Stark

In the third volume of her biography, Freya Stark records her travels in Egypt, the Persian Gulf, Greece, Italy and the Middle East during the thirties, as well as to South Arabia. The author also wrote "Dust in the Lion's Paw" and "The Southern Gates of Arabia".

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Traveller's prelude. more books like this

by Freya Stark

This book is the story of the author's cosmopolitan upbringing that shaped her destiny as a travel writer. She was born in Paris and started travelling at an early age when she was carried over the Pelmo Pass at the age of two. By the time she was five she could speak three languages and had lived in several European countries. She became a nurse ...

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Valleys Assasins more books like this

by Freya Stark

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Over the rim of the world : selected letters more books like this

by Freya Stark, Caroline Moorehead

This is a selection of letters, which include several previously unpublished, written by Freya Stark, first to her mother and later to friends, during her famous travels. She became a traveller when she was not quite four. She soon developed a taste for it and journeyed through the Near East and on her own through Persia as no European woman had ...

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Traveller's prelude : autobiography 1893-1927 more books like this

by Freya Stark

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Coat-Tails of Empire: The Adfa Letters: Freya Stark's Correspondence with Sir Harry Luke more books like this

by Freya Stark

This volume of letters written to intrepid travel writer Freya Stark's old friend Sir Harry Luke, contains an unbroken series of her published letters to one correspondent, and records her travels from 1951-1964.

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Letters more books like this

by Freya Stark, Lucy Moorehead

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Baghdad Sketches more books like this

by Barbara Kreiger, Freya Stark

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Bridge of the Levant 1940-43 more books like this

by Freya Stark

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Freya Stark : passionate nomad more books like this

by Jane Geniesse

Fluent in at least seven languages and a writer of ravishing prose accounts of her journeys, Freya Stark was one of the great travel writers of the twentieth century. In 1934 her first book, Valley of the Assassins, was hailed as a classic and T.E. Lawrence pronounced Stark 'a gallant creature, a remarkable person'. It marked the start of a ...

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