Freya Stark Quotes


You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.


Citations

Stark, Freya. The Valleys of the Assassins. John Murray, 1934.

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Freya Stark
Freya Stark
  • Born: January 31, 1893
  • Died: May 9, 1993
  • Nationality: British, Italian
  • Profession: Explorer, Travel Writer

Dame Freya Madeline Stark DBE, was an Anglo-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabs to travel through the southern Arabian Desert.