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292pp, EN INGLES, SOBRE LA AUTORA::: Dame Freya Madeleine Stark, DBE (31 de enero de 1893, París, Francia - 9 de mayo de 1993, Asolo, Italia) fue una exploradora y escritora británica.Freya Stark nació en París, dónde sus padres estudiaban arte. Su padre, Robert, era un pintor británico y su madre, Flora, era italiana de ascendencia germano-polaca. A los nueve años leyó Las mil y una noches, y quedó fascinada por Oriente. Más tarde aprendió árabe y persa. Durante la I Guerra Mundial estudió Historia en Londres y en la Escuela de Estudios Orientales y Africanos y trabajó con la Cruz Roja en Italia. En 1927 se embarcó rumbo a Beirut junto con una amiga. Viajó por Oriente Medio, buscó y encontró el valle de la secta de los Asesinos y la fortaleza de Alamut. En la II Guerra Mundial trabajó para el Ministerio de Información británico, En 1953 le concedieron la Cruz del Imperio Británico y fue nombrada dama del Imperio Británico en 1972. Ganó varios premios literiarios y a los 81 años atravesó y escaló algunos pasos del Himalaya.
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[Freya Stark] writes angelically in the great tradition of Charles Doughty and T. E. Lawrence. The pulse quickens as you read, because she can bring the sights and sounds of incredible countries before you in the twinkling of an eye."
--The New York Times Book Review
"[The Valleys of the Assassins] remains a wonderful description of a people and a place, altered today by Progress, perhaps, but through [Freya Stark's] eyes still alive with bandits, dervishes, idol worshippers, armed tribesmen, and mountain scenery of great beauty."
--From the Introduction by Jane Fletcher Geniesse "Stark is constantly alive to her immediate surroundings: indeed, what gives her work its extraordinary depth and power is just this ability to focus past and present... stereoscopically, in a single image."
--Times Literary Supplement [London]
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--The New York Times Book Review
"[The Valleys of the Assassins] remains a wonderful description of a people and a place, altered today by Progress, perhaps, but through [Freya Stark's] eyes still alive with bandits, dervishes, idol worshippers, armed tribesmen, and mountain scenery of great beauty."
--From the Introduction by Jane Fletcher Geniesse "Stark is constantly alive to her immediate surroundings: indeed, what gives her work its extraordinary depth and power is just this ability to focus past and present... stereoscopically, in a single image."
--Times Literary Supplement [London]
In a critically acclaimed travelogue first published in 1934, the author recounts her adventures traveling alone through the Middle East in 1927 and her odyssey through remote areas of Persia, including a visit to the hidden castle of local outlaws. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.
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Buchbeschreibung Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation's most intrepid explorers. The book chronicles her travels into Luristan, the mountainous terrain nestled between Iraq and present-day Iran, often with only a single guide and on a shoestring budget. Stark writes engagingly of the nomadic peoples who inhabit the region's valleys and brings to life the stories of the ancient kingdoms of the Middle East, including that of the Lords of Alamut, a band of hashish-eating terrorists whose stronghold in the Elburz Mountains Stark was the first to document for the Royal Geographical Society. Her account is at once a highly readable travel narrative and a richly drawn, sympathetic portrait of a people told from their own compelling point of view. This edition includes a new Introduction by Jane Fletcher Geniesse, Stark's biographer. Artikel-Nr. 9780375757532
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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: New. 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 Ar. Artikel-Nr. 594611121
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