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Freya Stark

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British · 1893–1993

One of the first Western women to travel alone through the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East, Freya Stark mapped uncharted territory in what is now Iraq and Iran while producing some of the most lyrical travel prose of the 20th century.

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