Title: The coast of incense, autobiography 1933-1939.
Authors: Stark, Freya; John Murray (Firm)
Publisher: J. Murray
Year: 1953
Subjects: Stark, Freya; Women explorers Biography.; Women Middle East specialists Biography.; Ḥaḍramawt (Yemen : Province) Description and travel.; Middle East Description and travel
Abstract: Freya Stark was a British explorer and travel writer. She was one of the first outsiders to travel through the southern Arabian deserts. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan, as well as several autobiographic works. This covers her life from 1933-1939 and includes letters as well as her impressions during her travels of this time, mostly in South Arabia.
Contents: First journey to the south, 1933-1935 -- Iraq revisited, 1935-1937 -- The winter in Huraidha, 1937-1938 -- Greece and Syria: the year of Munich, 1938-1939 -- The war, 1939.