Passionate Nomad The Life of Freya Stark

Name: Passionate Nomad The Life of Freya Stark
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ISBN: 9780375757464

ISBN-10: 0375757465

ISBN-13: 9780375757464

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jane Fletcher Geniesse, Jane Geniesse

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Freya Stark—traveler, explorer, Arabist, and woman of letters—began the extraordinary adventures that would glamorize her—and would catapult her into public life for the next sixty years—in 1927. And with the publication of The Valley of the Assassins in 1934, her legend was launched. Leaving behind a miserable family life, Freya set out, at the age of thirty-four, to explore remote and dangerous regions of the Middle East. She was captured in 1927 by the French military police after penetrating their cordon around the rebellious Druze. She explored the mountainous territory of the mysterious Assassins of Persia, became the first woman to explore Luristan in western Iran, and followed…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/24/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.19" wide x 8.00" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 0.880

Jane Fletcher Geniesse is a former reporter for "The New York Times". Her writing has been featured in "The Washington Post", "New York" magazine, & "Town & Country". She lives in Washington, D.C.