Baghdad Sketches - Softcover

Stark, Freya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0910395810 ISBN 13: 9780910395816

Publisher: Marlboro Press,The,U.S., 1992

Synopsis

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 and Persia, visiting ancient and medieval sites, and traveling alone through some of the wilder corners of the region.

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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: Marlboro Press,The,U.S.
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0910395810
• ISBN 13: 9780910395816
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 177