Typescript for Alexander’s Path from Caria to Cilicia Freya Stark, 1958 [STARK, Freya (1893-1993). Typescript for Alexander’s Path from Caria to Cilicia, 1958.] Carbon typescript, 255 x 200mm, approx. 268 pp., corrections throughout in ink and pencil; with two versions of the foreword; each chapter separately paperclipped and docketed “My copy.” Custom chemise and slipcase. The original typescript for Stark's 1958 book, together with a travel itinerary and photographs. Stark, an Anglo-Italian explorer, travel writer, and photographer, was the first Westerner to journey through many regions of the Middle East. She was the author of more than two dozen books on her travels, as well as several autobiographical works and essays. Self-taught, she learned Turkish and Arabic as a youth, and her prolific writing career began with The Valleys Of The Assassins And Other Persian Travels, published in 1934, followed by The Southern Gates of Arabia in 1936 and Baghdad Sketches in 1937. In her obituary, The New York Times would note that her travelogues were “lucid, spontaneous and elegant and were lauded for imparting an inspired sense of both history and people. The consensus of reviewers was that she wrote with spirit, authority and humor and that she was a consummate traveler because of her fearlessness, candor, charm, idealism and streak of naivete.” [With:] Two-page typescript, “Note of a Journey Made with Freya Stark in August and September 1957,” recording a journey from Orenkoy to Denizli across seven days, including travel times, distance, and road conditions; with 18 black and white photographs in envelope labeled “taken by Freya Stark during the mule ride up the Zanthes Valley Aug/Sept 1957,” with envelopes addressed to Michael Stewart at the British Embassy.
Typescript for Alexander’s Path from Caria to Cilicia Freya Stark, 1958 [STARK, Freya (1893-1993). Typescript for Alexander’s Path from Caria to Cilicia, 1958.] Carbon typescript, 255 x 200mm, approx. 268 pp., corrections throughout in ink and pencil; with two versions of the foreword; each chapter separately paperclipped and docketed “My copy.” Custom chemise and slipcase. The original typescript for Stark's 1958 book, together with a travel itinerary and photographs. Stark, an Anglo-Italian explorer, travel writer, and photographer, was the first Westerner to journey through many regions of the Middle East. She was the author of more than two dozen books on her travels, as well as several autobiographical works and essays. Self-taught, she learned Turkish and Arabic as a youth, and her prolific writing career began with The Valleys Of The Assassins And Other Persian Travels, published in 1934, followed by The Southern Gates of Arabia in 1936 and Baghdad Sketches in 1937. In her obituary, The New York Times would note that her travelogues were “lucid, spontaneous and elegant and were lauded for imparting an inspired sense of both history and people. The consensus of reviewers was that she wrote with spirit, authority and humor and that she was a consummate traveler because of her fearlessness, candor, charm, idealism and streak of naivete.” [With:] Two-page typescript, “Note of a Journey Made with Freya Stark in August and September 1957,” recording a journey from Orenkoy to Denizli across seven days, including travel times, distance, and road conditions; with 18 black and white photographs in envelope labeled “taken by Freya Stark during the mule ride up the Zanthes Valley Aug/Sept 1957,” with envelopes addressed to Michael Stewart at the British Embassy.
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