Freya Stark
Biographic Data
| ID | 974433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Freya Stark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Freya |
| FAMILY NAME | Stark |
| SIGNATURE | STARK F |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1931 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Over the Rim of the World: Selected Letters of Freya Stark
Letters, Vol. V: New Worlds for Old, 1943-46
Letters. Vol. I
Rome on the Euphrates. The Story of a Frontier
Rome on the Euphrates
Between Oxus and Jumna
Riding to the Tigris
Alexander's Path from Caria to Cilicia
This is Freya Stark's account of her third visit to Turkey. The route she takes is the one which was trodden 22 centuries previously by Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia. Provides a bridge into that ancient world, whilst also bringing us close to twentieth century Turkey
Alexander's Path
Landscapes in Caria I
Caria, where thunderbolts are frequent. Athenaeus mentioned this and D.B. now repeated it, and offered me his Land-Rover as a substitute for a horse, with Eddie Wilkinson, his consul in Smyrna, an erudite and perfect companion, on a few days' leave of absence to look at the inland cities. Eddie knows the country and the history, and the credit of this expedition is his. We travelled from Ephesus, under the Augustan aqueduct, over the Maeander pas…
Landscapes in Caria II
Turkish Odyssey: Review
Alexander's Minor Campaigns in Turkey
Ifear it IS rather presumptuous stand on this platform with no exploration talk about. My journeys in Turkey during the last three years were not of that kind, and I have rely for your entertainment tonight on my photographs which illustrate a beautiful country, and on a subject which must always be of some interest, the march of Alexander in the course of his more obscure campaigns on the way Issus. They have not often been followed by traveller…
Anatolian Travel: Review
The Coast of Incense
Traveller's Prelude
Traveller's Prelude
In Southwestern Arabia in Wartime
Letters from Syria
An Exploration in the Hadhramaut and Journey to the Coast
T3EF0RE saying anything about southern Arabia to-night I should like -L?to express my deep thanks to your Society. It was your generosity together with that of Viscount Wakefield, of Mr. Louis Clarke in Cambridge, and of the Ashmolean Museum, which alone made excavation possible in the Hadhramaut. And I should like to add a word of grateful thanks to all the British authonties in Aden and Mukalla, who assisted us in every way You have been told o…
Seen in the Hadhramaut
Baghdad Sketches
The Hadhramaut: Review
Two Months in the Hadhramaut
A Persian Inscription on the Minaret of Saveh
HE Middle Ages are out of fashion at the present moment with archaeologists in the Near East, and the importance of prehistoric discoveries leaves little interest over for buried Islamic cities. By the time that such an interest may be expected to revive, one of the chief monuments of the early twelfth century in Persia will only too probably have been destroyed for ever. This is the minaret of Saveh (about 80 miles south-west of Tehran), built o…
Alexander's Minor Campaigns in Turkey
Ifear it IS rather presumptuous stand on this platform with no exploration talk about. My journeys in Turkey during the last three years were not of that kind, and I have rely for your entertainment tonight on my photographs which illustrate a beautiful country, and on a subject which must always be of some interest, the march of Alexander in the course of his more obscure campaigns on the way Issus. They have not often been followed by traveller…
The Bronzes of Luristan
SO little is known about the bronzes of Luristan, and their interest to the archaeologist and historian is so great, that any one who has had the good fortune to enter at all into that little-known country is justified in recounting his experiences. I was able to travel last October from Nihavand over the Varazan pass to Khava, thence to Alishtar, back again through Khava into Dilfan, and from Dilfan by Chavari through Duliskan to Tudaru, which s…
Alexander's Path
An Exploration in the Hadhramaut and Journey to the Coast
T3EF0RE saying anything about southern Arabia to-night I should like -L?to express my deep thanks to your Society. It was your generosity together with that of Viscount Wakefield, of Mr. Louis Clarke in Cambridge, and of the Ashmolean Museum, which alone made excavation possible in the Hadhramaut. And I should like to add a word of grateful thanks to all the British authonties in Aden and Mukalla, who assisted us in every way You have been told o…
Seen in the Hadhramaut
Two Months in the Hadhramaut
The Assassins' Valley and the Salambar Pass
These were both on the other, or north-east, side. I also found a number of small tunnels or cellars. On the north-east side, close to the north-north-west end of the rock, is a natural chimney which has been carefully blocked up by masonry (see Plate 4). To judge from the amount of broken pottery lying about on the neck connecting the Rock of Alamut with the mountain side, a considerable village must once have stood there. No trace of any buildi…
The Assassins' Castle of Lambesar
WHEN Hulagu the Tartar devastated the Middle East in a.d. 1256 he took and destroyed among others fifty or more castles of the Assassins. Of all these strongholds, which one hears of over the north of Persia from the borders of Khurasan to those of Arabian 'Iraq, only two are mentioned as having put up any long resistance. These are Girdkuh and Lambesar, of which the sites have hitherto been unknown. They held out for six months, long after the l…
The Bronzes of Luristan
SO little is known about the bronzes of Luristan, and their interest to the archaeologist and historian is so great, that any one who has had the good fortune to enter at all into that little-known country is justified in recounting his experiences. I was able to travel last October from Nihavand over the Varazan pass to Khava, thence to Alishtar, back again through Khava into Dilfan, and from Dilfan by Chavari through Duliskan to Tudaru, which s…
Baghdad Sketches
The Pusht-I-Kuh
The Valleys of the Assassins: Review
The Site of the City of Kalar in Kalar Dasht
rubber and oil-palm estates, small Chinese estates and gardens, and patches of jungle and secondary jungle. The remainder of the Section was employed on the west coast. This coast of Johore is low-lying and mainly swampy, the 50-foot contour generally being about I2 miles from the coast. Along the coast there is a fringe of mangrove swamp about half a mile wide and inside this a belt of cultivation, mainly native coconut palm plantations, from 3 …
A Persian Inscription on the Minaret of Saveh
HE Middle Ages are out of fashion at the present moment with archaeologists in the Near East, and the importance of prehistoric discoveries leaves little interest over for buried Islamic cities. By the time that such an interest may be expected to revive, one of the chief monuments of the early twelfth century in Persia will only too probably have been destroyed for ever. This is the minaret of Saveh (about 80 miles south-west of Tehran), built o…
The Hadhramaut: Review
Two Months in the Hadhramaut
Baghdad Sketches
An Exploration in the Hadhramaut and Journey to the Coast
T3EF0RE saying anything about southern Arabia to-night I should like -L?to express my deep thanks to your Society. It was your generosity together with that of Viscount Wakefield, of Mr. Louis Clarke in Cambridge, and of the Ashmolean Museum, which alone made excavation possible in the Hadhramaut. And I should like to add a word of grateful thanks to all the British authonties in Aden and Mukalla, who assisted us in every way You have been told o…
Seen in the Hadhramaut
Letters from Syria
In Southwestern Arabia in Wartime
Traveller's Prelude
The Coast of Incense
Traveller's Prelude
Anatolian Travel: Review
Turkish Odyssey: Review
Alexander's Minor Campaigns in Turkey
Ifear it IS rather presumptuous stand on this platform with no exploration talk about. My journeys in Turkey during the last three years were not of that kind, and I have rely for your entertainment tonight on my photographs which illustrate a beautiful country, and on a subject which must always be of some interest, the march of Alexander in the course of his more obscure campaigns on the way Issus. They have not often been followed by traveller…
Landscapes in Caria I
Caria, where thunderbolts are frequent. Athenaeus mentioned this and D.B. now repeated it, and offered me his Land-Rover as a substitute for a horse, with Eddie Wilkinson, his consul in Smyrna, an erudite and perfect companion, on a few days' leave of absence to look at the inland cities. Eddie knows the country and the history, and the credit of this expedition is his. We travelled from Ephesus, under the Augustan aqueduct, over the Maeander pas…
Landscapes in Caria II
Alexander's Path from Caria to Cilicia
This is Freya Stark's account of her third visit to Turkey. The route she takes is the one which was trodden 22 centuries previously by Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia. Provides a bridge into that ancient world, whilst also bringing us close to twentieth century Turkey
Alexander's Path
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