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The Southern Gates of Arabia: a Journey in the Hadhramaut
de STARK, Freya
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Quinton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
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John Murray, 1936. 1st edition. Hardcover. Green boards, cloth rebacked, spine remounted, original owner's name on fep (that of the 26-year-old Alethea Hayter, writer, then on the staff of Country Life), with very clean pages and illustrations, nice folding map at rear. The author's first book to recount her remarkable journey into the Hadhramaut, into which no previous European had ever ventured so far. She would receive the Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Gold Medal in 1942 for her travels in, and accounts of, southern Arabia.
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Freya Stark, described by The Times of London as "the last of the Romantic Travellers" upon her death in 1993, published during her lifetime more than thirty books about her travels in the Middle East, including The Southern Gates of Arabia . Jane Fletcher Geniesse is a former reporter for The New York Times and the author of the biography Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark , a finalist for the 1999 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Her writing has been featured in The Washington Post, New York magazine, and Town & Country . She lives in Washington, D.C.
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- The Southern Gates of Arabia: a Journey in the Hadhramaut
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- STARK, Freya
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- John Murray, 1936
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Quinton, Northamptonshire
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