Baghdad Sketches (Marlboro Travel) - Softcover

Stark, Freya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810160234 ISBN 13: 9780810160231

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1996

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Review:

"Freya Stark writes beautiful, rousing travel prose. Her Baghdad Sketches . . . have a polish that is as genuine as it is rare." --Forum
"In every one of these articles we see the same astonishing and delicate power to evoke a scene." --Spectator
"This is more than just another travel book. . . . As good travel literature it stands with the best." --Saturday Review of Literature

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0810160234
• ISBN 13: 9780810160231
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 177