This is a selection of letters, which include several previously unpublished, written by Freya Stark, first to her mother and later to friends, during her famous travels. She became a traveller when she was not quite four. She soon developed a taste for it and journeyed through the Near East and on her own through Persia as no European woman had done before, depicting the history, landscape and people. During the First World War she nursed in Caporetto, in the 1920s she was in Italy and saw the rise of Mussolini, in the 1930s she explored the Near East, and was Information Officer in Aden, Cairo, Baghdad, India and the United States for the duration of the Second World War. She describes her experiences during events which are now of historical interest.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.
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This is a selection of letters, which include several previously unpublished, written by Freya Stark, first to her mother and later to friends, during her famous travels. She became a traveller when she was not quite four. She soon developed a taste for it and journeyed through the Near East and on her own through Persia as no European woman had done before, depicting the history, landscape and people. During the First World War she nursed in Caporetto, in the 1920s she was in Italy and saw the rise of Mussolini, in the 1930s she explored the Near East, and was Information Officer in Aden, Cairo, Baghdad, India and the United States for the duration of the Second World War. She describes her experiences during events which are now of historical interest.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.
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Librería: G. & J. CHESTERS, TAMWORTH, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 404 pages, a very good hardback in a very good dust-jacket [0719546192]. Nº de ref. del artículo: 150207
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Librería: Brit Books, Milton Keynes, Reino Unido
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Librería: Approximations, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Green cloth boards, gilt title and attributions to spine. Light external wear - wrinkle near crown. Text block mellowed. Neat personal signature on front endpaper. Edited by Caroline Moorehead. Foreword by Patrick Leigh Fermor. (xi)404pp. Two black and white maps. Complete jacket has moderate rubbing to crown and upper corners and light wear to heel and edges. Octavo. Nº de ref. del artículo: ABE-1774545023905
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Librería: Blacket Books (PBFA), Edinburgh, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is complete and untorn. No previous owners' markings. Page edges browned. Pp.[xii],404. Maps. This selection of letters of the famous traveller includes several never before published. Nº de ref. del artículo: 026227
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Librería: Salusbury Books, GLASGOW, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. *** BOOK Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine nad facsimile signature in gilt on the upper board. 404 pages, including index. 2 maps. The paper is univasally slightly toned. *** DUST JACKET in very good condition, spine sunned, not clipped. Now Trimsleeve protected. *** CONTENTS: Freya Stark (1893-1993) was one of Britain's great travellers, particularly in the Near East, Afghanistan and Persia (Iran). She wrote in all about twenty books. Nº de ref. del artículo: 007861
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Librería: David Ford Books PBFA, Cley-next-the-Sea, Reino Unido
Fine. Condición: Very Good. First edition. Foreword by Patrick Leigh Fermor. Introduction and footnotes by the editor. Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket illustrated with colour photo and painting of Freya Stark, and vignette engravings by Reynolds Stone. 404pp. Two maps in the text. Letters from 1914 to 1980, many from her travels in the Middle east, but also from Italy, India and the USA. Very Good in Fine protected dustjacket. Tanned page edges and margins (type of paper) and some spotting to top page edges. Still a Nice copy.Photos available. Nº de ref. del artículo: 34142
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Librería: Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. pp XII, 404. 1st printing. Slight foxing to end papers. Nº de ref. del artículo: 037574
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Librería: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, Francia
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: fair. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. green cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 404 pp, dj torn. Nº de ref. del artículo: 90260
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