A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen - Softcover

Stark, Freya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585672904 ISBN 13: 9781585672905

Publisher: The Overlook Press, 2002

Synopsis

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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About the Author:

Freya Stark, described by The Times of London as "the last of the Romantic Travellers" upon her death in 1993, published during her lifetime more than thirty books about her travels in the Middle East, including The Southern Gates of Arabia.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Overlook Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1585672904
• ISBN 13: 9781585672905
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 326