Full name: A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen

Author: Freya Stark Year: 1940 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781585672905 9781590206461 1585672904 1590206460

One of the most unconventional and courageous explorers of her time, Freya Stark chronicled her extraordinary Travels 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." Similar books: The Minaret of Djam by Freya Stark Ionia by Freya Stark The Lycian Shore by Freya Stark Arabia by Jonathan Raban Motoring with Mohammed by Eric Hansen Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles M. Doughty The Southern Gates of Arabia by Freya Stark Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger Across the Empty Quarter by Wilfred Thesiger Yemen by Tim Mackintosh-Smith The Valleys of the Assassins by Freya Stark Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia by Tony Horwitz Full Circle by Michael Palin Pole To Pole by Michael Palin A Woman's Passion for Travel by Marybeth Bond To the Ends of the Earth by Paul Theroux Around the World in 80 Days by Michael Palin Reckless Traveler by Walter Rhein The Royal Road to Romance by Richard Halliburton