8vo. xi, 327 pp., [1], b/w photographs, 2 folding maps, cloth, lightly faded and rubbed at spine extremities, biblio, index, previous owner’s inscription typexed over on front fly leaf, small tear to lower margin of pages 1 & 3 without any loss, otherwise copy in good condition, John Murray, London, 1938.

Synopsis

Dame Freya Madeline Stark DBE (1893 – 1993), was an Anglo-Italian explorer and travel writer. She was one of the first non-Arabs to travel through the southern Arabian Desert.