STARK, Freya.
The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut.
Freya Stark's The Southern Gates of Arabia
London: John Murray, 1936.
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First edition, early printing of this landmark travel narrative through southern Arabia. Octavo, publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, facsimile signature of the author to the front panel stamped in gilt, profusely illustrated with black and white photographs from the author. In very good condition, stamp to the front pastedown.
British-Italian explorer and travel writer Dame Freya Madeline Stark wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabs known to travel through the southern Arabian Desert in modern times. Her best-known works include A Winter in Arabia (1940). East and West (1945), and Perseus in the Wind (1948). The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut (1936) chronicles her expedition through southern Arabia, one of the least explored regions by Europeans at the time. Combining ethnographic observation with lyrical prose, Stark documented the geography, culture, and daily life of the Hadhramaut while also reflecting on the challenges and perils of travel as a woman in a conservative and remote society.
The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut.
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