Freya Stark: 4 books

A Winter in Arabia recounts her 1937-8 expedition in what is now Yemen, a journey which helped secure her reputation not only as a great travel writer, but also as a first-rate geographer, historian, and archaeologist. There, in the land whose "nakedness is clothed in shreds of departed splendor,"...

This is the story of back-country Turkey, an area that even in the 20th century remains stubbornly tied to antiquity. The author traveled through it by truck and horseback, often alone. She reached places little visited and never written about. The country people welcomed her with generosity unrelated...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Die Reise-Pionierin reist in die Türkei, nach Syrien, in den Libanon und erreicht schließlich im Winter 1934 den Süden der arabischen Halbinsel, den heutigen Jemen. Ihr Ziel ist der südliche Teil der mittelalterlichen Weihrauchstraße, die sich durch das 600 Kilometer lange Hadramaut-Tal schlängelt....