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The Southern Gates Of Arabia - A Journey In The Hadbramaut Freya Stark Author

The Southern Gates Of Arabia - A Journey In The Hadbramaut Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Full description, In 1934, a 42-year-old Englishwoman named Freya Stark arrived in the British-governed Protectorate of Aden on a singular mission: to locate the fabled, long-lost city of Shabwa. The Southern Gates of Arabia is her story.

Located on the high Hadramawt plateau in what is now Yemen, Shabwa was renowned in antiquity as the source of frankincense. Little visited even then, it was also thought to be a particularly forbidding place; Genesis mentions it as the "enclosure of death", and the Roman geographer Pliny reported that it contained 60 great temples and wealth beyond measure. That was good enough for Stark, who, having not long made a difficult passage across the badlands of Iran, thrived on improbable adventures; and so, by burro and whatever mechanical conveyances she could find, she ascended the high mountains into a world that was sometimes perilous, but that also sometimes approached fairy-tale dimensions, as when, climbing the Hadramawt she writes: "The path kept high and open, until gradually the valley clefts narrowed again upon us, and shut us in walls whose luxuriant green made a romantic landscape of the kind usually only invented in pictures."

Stark never reached Shabwa; laid low by the measles, she had to be evacuated from territory overrun in any event by warring religious factions and gangs of bandits. Though cut short, her time in the Yemeni highlands yielded this superb travel narrative, full of uncommon vistas and milieus--harems, bazaars and Bedouin camps among them). Anyone who values tales of adventure well told will find Stark's body of work--and this book in particular--to be full of treasures. --Gregory McNamee

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EAN (ISBN-13): 9781444610154
ISBN (ISBN-10): 1444610155
Paperback
Publishing year: 2009
Publisher: Bowen Press Core >1
440 Pages
Weight: 0,553 kg
Language: eng/Englisch

Book in our database since 2009-04-29T18:03:08+01:00 (London)
Detail page last modified on 2023-12-31T14:24:01+00:00 (London)
ISBN/EAN: 9781444610154

ISBN - alternate spelling:
1-4446-1015-5, 978-1-4446-1015-4
Alternate spelling and related search-keywords:
Book author: freya stark
Book title: journey arabia, the southern gates arabia


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