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A Journey Through Yemen
The renowned explorer recounts her expedition to find a lost Arabian city in this โtreasure of rare distinction among travel booksโ (The New York ...
One of the most unconventional and courageous explorers of her time, Freya Stark chronicled her extraordinary Travels in the Near East, establishing h...
A Travel Memoir
A memoir of a womanโs trek through rural Turkey and its ancient history: โA sharp-eyed, thoughtful, and knowledgeable traveler.โ โThe New York...
and Other Persian Travels
Hailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation's most in...
In the fall of 1928, thirty-five year-old Freya Stark set out on her first journey to the Middle East. She spent most of the next four years in Iraq a...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
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In 1934 Freya Stark, encouraged by her recent awards from the Royal Geographical and Royal Central Asian Societies, set out to explore the Incense Roa...
Selections from Freya Stark
A Life of Travel
Written just after World War II, Perseus in the Wind (named after the constellation) is perhaps the most personal, and haunting, of all Freya Stark's ...
LETTERS FROM SYRIA JOHN MURRAY. CONTENTS PACE: i. FROM VENICE TO BEIRUT. LETTERS 112 j In the first of these letters Freya Stark has left her home at ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in...
With such tantalizing chapters as "In Defence of Smuggling" and "Lunch with Homer," this is a witty, eye-opening tapestry of Freya Stark's writings on...
A Journey in the Hadhramaut
Journalist, traveler, and writer Freya Stark wrote this book "as an armchair journey for the average reader" after discovering that contemporary knowl...
This is the author's story of a horseback trek across the high Turkish plateau and on to the Tigris River. She traveled alone (except for muleteers, p...
Autobiography 1933-1939
Freya Stark was a British explorer and travel writer. She was one of the first outsiders to travel through the southern Arabian deserts. She wrote mor...
The author shares her experiences traveling in Persia, Syria, Greece, and Turkey and offers her observations on each nation's people and culture...
Account of a journey in a sailing yacht along the Asia Minor coast of Turkey, with notes on the Greeks, the Persians, the Macedonians, and other previ...
The Story of a Frontier
A distinguished historical work presenting eight centuries of Roman history in Asia Minor and the Middle East. -- Front cover....
A selection of the English traveler's writings from 1927 to 1958....
An Excursion in Afghanistan
Freya Stark traveled the difficult and often dangerous journey from Kabul to Kandahar and Herat in search of one of Afghanistanโs most celebrated tr...
And Other Persian Travels
Autobiography, 1939-1946
Account of the author's work as a British propagandist, chiefly among the Arabs, 1939-1946....
Author's life before her journeys in the East....
Autobiography 1928-1933
Autobiogr. 1928-1933
A Journey in the Hadramaut
A Journey to the Hadramaut
A Journey to the Had[h]ramaut
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...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was ...
From Caria to Cilicia
Stark published this collection of her photographs in 1939. She intended the book for the popular reader to admire the sights and people of the histor...