A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen
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ISBN: 1585672904 / Publisher: The Overlook Press, June 2002
Recounts the late author's 1937-1938 expedition through the land now called Yemen, during which she and two companions spent a winter in search of an ancient South Arabian city and examined local business and social conduct as well as life behind the veil for women. Reprint.
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One of the most unconventional and courageous explorers of her time, Freya Stark chronicled her extraordinaryTravels in the Near East, establishing herself as a twentieth century heroine.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," she and two companions spent a winter in search of an ancient South Arabian city.Offering rare glimpses of life behind the veil-the subtleties of business and social conduct, the elaborate beauty rituals of the women, and the bitter animosities between rival tribes,Freya Stark conveys the "perpetual charm of Arabia ... that the traveler finds his own level there simply as a human being."
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