Over the Rim of the World: Selected Letters of Freya Stark

Stark, Freya

ISBN 10: 0719546192 / ISBN 13: 9780719546198

Published by John Murray, London, 1988

About this Item

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Green cloth boards, gilt title and attributions to spine. Light external wear - wrinkle near crown. Text block mellowed. Neat personal signature on front endpaper. Edited by Caroline Moorehead. Foreword by Patrick Leigh Fermor. (xi)404pp. Two black and white maps. Complete jacket has moderate rubbing to crown and upper corners and light wear to heel and edges. Octavo.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1774545023905

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Over the Rim of the World: Selected Letters of Freya Stark
• Publisher: John Murray, London
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719546192
• ISBN 13: 9780719546198
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 762 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel

About this title

Synopsis

This is a selection of letters, which include several previously unpublished, written by Freya Stark, first to her mother and later to friends, during her famous travels.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.