A Winter in Arabia [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Stark, Freya

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ISBN 10: 1590206460 ISBN 13: 9781590206461

Casa editrice: Overlook Pr, 2011

Riassunto

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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• Editore: Overlook Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1590206460
• ISBN 13: 9781590206461
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320