ÜBER DEN RAND DER WELT, FREYA STARK AUSGEWÄHLTE BUCHSTABEN Naher Osten Türkei
OVER THE RIM OF THE WORLD FREYA STARK SELECTED LETTERS Edited by CAROLINE MOORHEAD Foreword by PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR JOHN MURRAY: LONDON 1988 1st edition. 24 x 16 cm. (9½ x 6½''), 404 pp. HB/DJ About once in a century the small shores and moist airs of these islands produce a traveller of genius whose spirit is drawn to deserts and burning suns and who has the rare gift of being able to interpret the experience. Such a one is Freya Stark. Freya Stark became a traveller at the age of four. She soon developed a,taste for travel in rough places, journeying through the Near East and on her own through Persia when no European woman had done so before. 'The beckoning counts', she wrote, 'and not the clicking latch behind you .., the actual moment of emancipation ... of the whole world coming to meet you like a wave.
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