Freya Stark

The Valleys of the Assassins

A John Murray Journey

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Produktbeschreibung

The travel classic by intrepid explorer Freya Stark, relating her journeys through the infamous 'Valleys of the Assassins' alone in the 1930s. A John Murray Journey.

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Produktdetails

• Overcoming Books
• Verlag: John Murray Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 126mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 302g
• ISBN-13: 9781529379778
• ISBN-10: 1529379776
• Artikelnr.: 62110815

Autorenporträt

Freya Stark (1893-1993) was an Anglo-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 Europeans to travel through the southern Arabian Desert. During World War II she worked for the British Ministry of Information in Aden, Baghdad, and Cairo, where she founded the anti-Nazi Brotherhood of Freedom. She was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1972.