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The Freya Stark Collection

Freya Stark

Freya Stark (1893-1993), called “the poet of travel,” was the doyenne of Middle East travel writers and one of the most courageous and adventurous female travellers in history. She travelled extensively through Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq and Southern Arabia,...

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Trade Paperback : $19.00 Buy	Rome on the Euphrates The Story of a Frontier The Freya Stark Collection Freya Stark Tauris Parke Paperbacks A detailed account of famed travel writer Freya Stark's journey through the Mediterranean

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Lycian Shore The Freya Stark Collection Freya Stark Tauris Parke Paperbacks Lycia, on the southwestern coast of Turkey, is an ancient land steeped in mystery, myth, and legend. Figured prominently throughout history and literature,...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Baghdad Sketches Journeys through Iraq The Freya Stark Collection Freya Stark Tauris Parke Paperbacks 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...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Minaret of Djam An Excursion in Afghanistan The Freya Stark Collection Freya Stark Tauris Parke Paperbacks Freya Stark traveled the difficult and often dangerous journey from Kabul to Kandahar and Herat in search of one of Afghanistan’s most celebrated treasures,...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	A Winter in Arabia A Journey through Yemen The Freya Stark Collection Freya Stark Tauris Parke Paperbacks In 1934 Freya Stark 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...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Ionia A Quest The Freya Stark Collection Freya Stark Tauris Parke Paperbacks When Freya Stark traveled along the western coast of Turkey in 1952 she met only one other tourist; today, this region is the most popular in the country....

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