Baghdad Sketches
Marlboro travel
Freya Stark
ISBN: | 9780810160231 |
Publisher: | Marlboro Press |
Published: | 31 December, 1996 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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Baghdad Sketches
Marlboro travel
Freya Stark
In the fall of 1928, Freya Stark, a thirty-five-year-old Englishwoman, set out on her first journey to the Middle East. Bolstered by a command of Arabic, a fair knowledge of Farsi, and an irrepressible drive that would characterize her more than five decades as a traveler and explorer, Stark spent most of the next four years in Iraq and Persia. Stark traveled alone throughout some of the wilder areas of the Middle East at a time when this area was gaining new worldwide importance. For Stark, risk-taking was the essence of a life worth living: while never hunting out danger for its own sake, she nevertheless viewed her travels as a way of expressing her freedom. Such views make her essays as fresh and startling today as when they were written.
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