Freya Stark ✓

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British explorer and writer

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.

Notable works:

Ionia, a quest

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To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. Alone
Happiness is like perfume: You can't give it away without getting a little on yourself. Away Without
Christmas... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. All

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