A winter in Arabia
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One of the most unconventional and courageous explorers of her time, Freya Stark chronicled her extraordinary Travels in the Near East, establishing herself as a Twentieth Century heroine. A Winter in Arabia recounts her 1937-8 expedition in what is now Yemen, a journey which helped secure her reputation not only as a great travel writer, but also as a first-rate geographer, historian, and archaeologist. There, in the land whose "nakedness is clothed in shreds of departed splendor," she and two companions spent a winter in search of an ancient South Arabian city. Offering rare glimpses of life behind the veil-the subtleties of business and social conduct, the elaborate beauty rituals of the women, and the bitter animosities between rival tribes-Freya Stark conveys the "perpetual charm of Arabia... that the traveler finds his own level there simply as a human being."
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Ḥaḍramawt (Yemen : Province) -- Description and travel
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Stark, Freya -- Travel -- Yemen (Republic) -- Ḥaḍramawt (Province)
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Ḥaḍramawt (Yemen : Province) -- Description and travel
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