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1	The Valleys of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels more books like this by Freya Stark Alone with her guides, Freya Stark began an extraordinary trek into the mysteries of 1930s Persia. Travelling through some of the most remote and unexplored terrain in the world, her adventures took her from North-West Luristan, through the Valley of the Assassins, to the Throne of Solomon. see all copies from $4.62! new only from $8.66! \| first editions \| SVS
2	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 ... see all copies from $4.64! new only from $8.64! \| first editions
3	Winter in Arabia more books like this by Freya Stark In November 1937 Freya Stark returned to the Hadhramaut during the fragile British peace. With some colourful companions and 81 packages, she travelled through the arid beauty of the desert until her company was marooned in a busy town in the interior. She met Sultans and slaves, bedouin and bandits, and spent her time exploring dusty forts and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Alexander's Path more books like this by Stark This is Dame Freya Stark's account of her third visit to Turkey. Her route was the one which had been taken 22 centuries earlier by Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, and the book aims to provide a bridge into that ancient world. It also offers insights into 20th-century Turkey, along little-used routes through lonely mountain passes, past ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Baghdad sketches more books like this by 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. ... see all copies from $4.22! new only from $13.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	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. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
7	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 ... see all copies from $8.19! new only from $15.46! \| first editions
8	Rome on the Euphrates; the story of a frontier. more books like this by Freya Stark see all copies from $13.99! first editions
9	Ionia: A Quest more books like this by Freya Stark see all copies from $6.16! first editions
10	The Journey's Echo: Selections from Freya Stark more books like this by Freya Stark, Lawrence Durrell (Foreword by) see all copies from $18.00! signed copies \| first editions
11	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 ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $16.47! \| first editions
12	The Zodiac Arch more books like this by Freya Stark see all copies from $6.80! new only from $36.04! \| first editions
13	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. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $25.50! \| first editions
14	Riding to the Tigris. more books like this by Freya Stark see all copies from $13.95! first editions
15	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 ... see all copies from $14.90! first editions \| SVS
16	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 ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $16.47! \| first editions
17	Perseus in the wind more books like this by Freya Stark see all copies from $5.00! first editions
18	Turkey: a sketch of Turkish history more books like this by Freya Stark, Fulvio Roiter see all copies from $18.00! first editions
19	Valleys of the Assassins more books like this by Stark see all copies from $12.44! first editions
20	Southern Gates Arab more books like this by Freya Stark see all copies from $2.85! first editions
21	A peak in Darien more books like this by Freya Stark see all copies from $8.15! first editions
22	Gateways and caravans; a portrait of Turkey. more books like this by Freya Stark, Fulvio Roiter see all copies from $19.95! first editions
23	The Minaret of Djam: An Excursion in Afghanistan more books like this by Freya Stark see all copies from $16.86! first editions
24	Letters from Syria more books like this by Freya Stark F RE Y A LETTERS FROM SYRIA JOHN MURRAY ALBEMARLE STREET, LONDON, W. --- - First Edition Printed in Great Britain by Wyman Sons, Ltd., London, Fdkenham and Reading CONTENTS PACE i. FROM VENICE TO BEIRUT. LETTERS 112 j In the first of these letters Freya Stark has left her home at Asolo and has set out from Venice on a small cargo vessel for her ... see all copies from $13.00! new only from $34.14! \| first editions \| SVS
25	Valleys Assasins more books like this by Freya Stark see all copies from $5.00!

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