A Winter in Arabia – Freya Stark (1941)

S$44.00

A Winter in Arabia – Freya Stark (1941)

S$44.00

Title: A Winter in Arabia
Author: Freya Stark
Publisher: Readers Union. No date, but research reveals it to be 1941.
Condition: Hardcover, no dust jacket. Some wear to cover, some wear to binding but still very much intact. Text clean. Name inscriptio

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Author: Freya Stark
Publisher: Readers Union. No date, but research reveals it to be 1941.
Condition: Hardcover, no dust jacket. Some wear to cover, some wear to binding but still very much intact. Text clean. Name inscription on fly page.With 18 photographs and maps on endpapers.

About the book (from Goodreads.com):

One of the most unconventional and courageous explorers of her time, Freya Stark chronicled her extraordinary Travels in the Near East, establishing herself as a twentieth century heroine. A Winter in Arabia recounts her 1937-8 expedition in what is now Yemen, a journey which helped secure her reputation not only as a great travel writer, but also as a first-rate geographer, historian, and archaeologist. There, in the land whose “nakedness is clothed in shreds of departed splendor,” she and two companions spent a winter in search of an ancient South Arabian city.

Offering rare glimpses of life behind the veil-the subtleties of business and social conduct, the elaborate beauty rituals of the women, and the bitter animosities between rival tribes, Freya Stark conveys the “perpetual charm of Arabia … that the traveler finds his own level there simply as a human being.”

About Freya Stark:

Dame Freya Madeline Stark (31 January 1893 – 9 May 1993) was a British explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan, as well as several autobiographic works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabians to travel through the southern Arabian deserts.