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In the fall of 1928, Freya Stark, a thirty-five-year-old Englishwoman, set out on her first journey to the Middle East. Bolstered by a command of Arabic, a fair knowledge of Farsi, and an irrepressible drive that would characterize her more than five decades as a traveler and explorer, Stark spent most of the next four years in Iraq and Persia. Stark traveled alone throughout some of the wilder areas of the Middle East at a time when this area was gaining new worldwide importance. For Stark, risk-taking was the essence of a life worth living: while never hunting out danger for its own sake, she nevertheless viewed her travels as a way of expressing her freedom. Such views make her essays as fresh and startling today as when they were written.

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• Full title: Baghdad Sketches
• Author: Freya Stark
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 177
• EAN: 9780810160231
• ISBN: 9780810160231
• ID: 06307188
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Weight: 250 g
• Dimensions: 135 × 210 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. December 1996

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