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Baghdad Sketches
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Artikel-Nr:
9780810160231
Veröffentl:
1996
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.12.1996
Seiten:
177
Autor:
Freya Stark
Gewicht:
249 g
Format:
211x134x16 mm
Serie:
Marlboro Travel
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Freya Stark was the author of over thirty-five books, including The Valley of Assassins, Beyond Euphrates, Alexander's Path, and Dust in the Lion's Paw.
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.