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A Winter in Arabia - A Journey Through Yemen by Freya Stark
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
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
Perseus in the Wind - A Life of Travel by Freya Stark
$24.00 NZD
Category: General Travel Writing
Written just after the Second World War, Perseus in the Wind (named after the constellation) is perhaps the most personal, and haunting, of all Freya Stark's writings. She muses on the seasons, the effect light has on a landscape at a particular time of day, the smell of the earth after rain, Muslim sai ...Show more
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