Baghdad sketches
By: Freya Stark ; introduction by Barbara Krieger.
Publisher: Marlboro Press/Northwestern
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Stark, Freya -- Travel -- Iraq.; Baghdad (Iraq) -- Description and travel.; Iraq -- Description and travel.; Iraq -- Social life and customs.
Description: "In the fall of 1928, Freya Stark, a thirty-five-year-old Englishwoman, set out on her first journey to the Middle East. Bolstered by a command of Arabic, a fair knowledge of Farsi, and an irrepressible drive that would characterize her more than five decades as a traveler and explorer, Stark spent most of the next four years in Iraq and Persia." "Stark traveled alone throughout some of the wilder areas of the Middle East at a time when this area was gaining new worldwide importance. For Stark, risk-taking was the essence of a life worth living: while never hunting out danger for its own sake, she nevertheless viewed her travels as a way of expressing her freedom. Such views make her essays as fresh and startling today as when they were written."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published: Marlboro, Vt. : Marlboro Press, 1992.