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A Winter in Arabia : A Journey Through Yemen by Freya Stark
$34.00 AUD
Category: Travel
Freya Stark is most famous for her travels in Arabia at a time when very few men, let alone women, had fully explored its vast hinterlands. In 1934, she made her first journey to the Hadhramaut in what is now Yemen - the first woman to do so alone. Even though that journey ended in disappointment, sickn ...Show more
Ionia: A Quest by Freya Stark
$28.00 AUD
Category: Travel
When Freya Stark travelled along the western coast of Turkey in 1952 she met only one other tourist. Today, this region is the most popular and well-travelled in the country, but to travel with Stark - whose aim was to 'create a guide-book in time' - is to experience Turkey in a richer and more inspirin ...Show more
Rome on the Euphrates: The Story of a Frontier by Freya Stark
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel
When Roman legions marched into Asia Minor in 200BC, their plan was to secure a buffer zone between the Mediterranean, which they virtually owned, and the area beyond, which they sought to isolate rather than control. Along the long frontier of the Euphrates in Turkey lay the easternmost limits of the R ...Show more
The Valleys of the Assassins: A John Murray Journey by Freya Stark
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Overcoming Bks.
INTRODUCED BY MONISHA RAJESH, award-winning author of Around the World in 80 Trains 'If I were asked to enumerate the pleasures of travel, this would be one of the greatest among them - that so often and so unexpectedly you meet the best in human nature.' Growing up in near-poverty and denied a formal e ...Show more
The Zodiac Arch by Freya Stark
$29.95 AUD
Category: Travel
With such tantalising chapters as "In Defence of Smuggling" and "Lunch with Homer" this witty, eye-opening tapestry of writings on travel and a life spent as one of the 20th century's most formidable adventuresses is Freya Stark at her luminous best. In chronological order, spanning an extraordinary 50 ...Show more
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