num_pages: 177
description: In the fall of 1928, thirty-five year-old Freya Stark set out on her first journey to the Middle East. She spent most of the next four years in Iraq and Persia, visiting ancient and medieval sites, and traveling alone through some of the wilder corners of the region.
language: English
title: Baghdad Sketches
titlecomplete: Baghdad Sketches (Travel)
genres: Islam, History, Iran, Adventure, Memoir, Biography, Travel, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 161
publisher: Marlboro Press