Freya Stark

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Notable works: Ionia, a quest

About Freya Stark

Dame Freya Madeline Stark 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.

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Quotes by Freya Stark · Page 6

Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal…

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Arithmetic

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The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly…

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Arabia

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every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

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Doomed

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It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.

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Culture

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I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number…

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Age

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The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the…

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