![]() ![]() ![]() She was one of the first non-Arab people to explore the Arabian desert, served with an ambulance unit in WW1, received a special Royal Geographic Society Award in 1933 and died in 1993, a few months after her 100th birthday. In an extraordinary life, she wrote more than twenty books about her travels to Afghanistan and the Middle East, as well as autobiographies and essays. For the twelfth in the series we have chosen Freya Stark.īorn in 1893, Freya Stark was an Anglo-Italian travel writer and explorer. ![]() TripFiction takes a look at some of these authors, for whom a sense of place has helped to define their literary output. For some writers location is as integral to their story-telling as plot or character. ![]()
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