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Freya Stark in Iraq and Kuwait

Journeying with the Poet of Travel: Dame Freya Stark

by Freya Stark

Imprint: Garnet Authors: Freya Stark Editors: Malise Ruthven Categories: Biography & Memoir, Travel ISBN: 9781859640043 Binding: Hardback Publication Date: 1997 RRP:
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In the early 1930s, Freya Stark held her only journalist’s job, as a sub-editor on the Baghdad Times, where she published her first book, Baghdad Sketches. Her photographs of the Yazidis are unique, and her travels in Kurdistan now seem particularly poignant. In Kuwait she photographed pearl fishers, the Marsh Arabs and various residents of the capital city.

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Freya Stark

Dame Freya Madeline Stark, Mrs. Perowne, DBE [1](born 31 January 1893, Paris, France — died 9 May 1993, Asolo, Italy) was a British explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels, which were mainly in Arabia, Iran and Afghanistan.
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Freya Stark was born in Paris, where her parents were studying art. Her mother, Flora, was an Italian of Polish/German descent; her father, Robert, an English painter from Devon.

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