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| | 4. |  | A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen
from The Overlook Press
Price: $11.53
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A travel memoir written in the late 1930s - and 1000 years ago. It's a beautifully written, gentle book of a harsh land and its tribal peoples. Stark, is both poet and pragmatist. More musings and personal interactions than places and things, the book is a pleasure to read and savor. I wonder if the... more info
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| | 6. |  | Baghdad Sketches (Marlboro Travel)
from Marlboro Press
Price: $12.75
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The book offers a unique protrayal of Baghdad in the 1930s through the eyes of a young British woman who lived amongst its slum dwellers on less than £1 a day. Freya Stark's day-to-day encounters with people in the slums juxtaposed with Iraqi intelligentsia and the detached British elite who... more info
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| | 7. | [no image] | Alexander's Path
from Overlook TP
Price: $12.44
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The perfect complement to be reading during our hiking trip in Lycia, spring, 2002. Challenged by the meagerness of the historical record of Alexander's progress along the Lycian coast, Stark set out in the 1950s to retrace and discover his most likely trail. Alexander had come to Xanthos, then... more info
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