Small 8vo. [6], 282 pp., frontis. 2 maps, 2 b/w illustrations, cloth, biblio, previous owner’s inscription on front fly leaf, cover damaged by damp stains not affecting the pages, copy clean inside and in very good condition, John Murray, London, 1944.

Synopsis

Dame Freya Madeline Stark DBE (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 non-Arabs to travel through the southern Arabian Desert.