Freya Stark

Portrait by [[Herbert Arnould Olivier]] (1923), [[National Portrait Gallery, London]] Dame Freya Madeline Stark (31 January 18939 May 1993) was a British-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabs known to travel through the southern Arabian Desert in modern times. Provided by Wikipedia
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The valleys of the Assassins and other Persian travels /

: 3 pages l., 364, [1] pages : front., illustrations, plates (part double) portraits., maps (part fold.) 23 cm.

Published 1945
A winter in Arabia /

: x, 265 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Published 1939
Baghdad sketches /

: "Cheap edition" : xiv, 157 pages includes plates : illustrations, double mapages ; 23 cm.

The Arab Island; the Middle East, 1939-1943 /

: "First American edition" : xxiv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Beyond Euphrates : autobiography, 1928-1933 /

: xiii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

The Arab Island : the Middle East, 1939-1943 /

: "First American edition." : xxiv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Published 1942
Letters from Syria /

: "First edition 1942."
Includes index. : x, 194 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 19 cm.

Seen in the Hadhramaut /

: Printed in Great Britain. : 3 preliminary leaves, ix-xxiii, 199 pages : illustrations, plates, maps ; 26 cm : wafaa.lib.

The southern gates of Arabia : a journey in the Hadhramaut /

: 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm : wafaa.lib.

The valleys of the Assassins and other Persian travels /

: 3 pages l., 364, [1] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm : wafaa.lib.

Rome on the Euphrates : the story of a frontier /

: xi, 481 pages : Illustrations, folded maps, 23 cm. : Bibliography : pages 451-459. : Nabil

Published 1945
East is West /

: Reprinted 1945 & 1946; Printed by Wyman & Sons, Limited, London, Fakenham and Reading.
Includes index. : xxii, 218 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : frontispiece, plates, portraits, map ; 20 cm

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