Freya Stark
Fluent in at least seven languages and a writer of ravishing prose accounts of her journeys, Freya Stark was one of the great travel writers of the twentieth century. In 1934 her first book, Valley of the Assassins, was hailed as a classic and T. E. Lawrence pronounced Stark ''a gallant creature, a remarkable person''.
It marked the start of a dazzling career as a writer; explorer and official dip...
Fluent in at least seven languages and a writer of ravishing prose accounts of her journeys, Freya Stark was one of the great travel writers of the twentieth century. In 1934 her first book, Valley of the Assassins, was hailed as a classic and T. E. Lawrence pronounced Stark ''a gallant creature, a remarkable person''.
It marked the start of a dazzling career as a writer; explorer and official dip...
