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The author and her husband buy a broken down sailboat, fix it up, and sail the inland passage to find the golden bear in the great bear rain forest in the upper reaches of the canadian coast line. Bolstered by a command of arabic, a fair knowledge of farsi, and an irrepressible drive that would characterize her more than five decades as a traveler and explorer, stark spent most of the next four years in iraq and persia. The story of freya stark is stunning, inspiring, sad, funny, unique, and moving. Dame freya stark, a resourceful and scholarly travel writer who was the first westerner to journey through many regions of the middle east, died on sunday at her home in asolo in northeast italy. The life of freya stark modern library paperback jane fletcher geniesse. Freya stark by jane fletcher geniesse overdrive rakuten. Jane fletcher geniesse ebook freya starktraveler, explorer, arabist, and woman of lettersbegan the extraordinary adventures that would glamorize herand would catapult her into public life for the next sixty yearsin 1927.
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