East is West by Freya Stark

East is West by Freya Stark

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Freya Stark, who died in 1993 and was dubbed the last of the Romantic Travellers by The Times of London, wrote more than thirty volumes about her journeys in the Middle East throughout her lifetime, including The Southern Gates of Arabia. Jane Fletcher Geniesse is a former New York Times writer and the author of Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark, a PEN/Martha Albrand Award finalist for First Nonfiction in 1999. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Washington Post, New York magazine, and Town & Country. She currently resides in Washington, D.C.