First edition. Foreword by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Introduction and footnotes by the editor. Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket illustrated with colour photo and painting of Freya Stark, and vignette engravings by Reynolds Stone. 404pp. Two maps in the text. Letters from 1914 to 1980, many from her travels in the Middle east, but also from Italy, India and the USA. Very Good in Fine protected dustjacket. Tanned page edges and margins (type of paper) and some spotting to top page edges. Still a Nice copy.Photos available.

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Title

Over the Rim of the World. Selected Letters.

Publisher

London: John Murray & Michael Russell

Publication Date

1988

Language

English

ISBN 10

0719546192

ISBN 13

9780719546198

Binding

Fine

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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This is a selection of letters, which include several previously unpublished, written by Freya Stark, first to her mother and later to friends, during her famous travels. She became a traveller when she was not quite four. She soon developed a taste for it and journeyed through the Near East and on her own through Persia as no European woman had done before, depicting the history, landscape and people. During the First World War she nursed in Caporetto, in the 1920s she was in Italy and saw the rise of Mussolini, in the 1930s she explored the Near East, and was Information Officer in Aden, Cairo, Baghdad, India and the United States for the duration of the Second World War. She describes her experiences during events which are now of historical interest.

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