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Traveller through Time: A Photographic Journey with Freya Stark
Traveller through Time A Photographic Journey with Freya Stark Author:Malise Ruthven Freya Stark's unique collection of photographs, taken between the 1920s and 1970s, range from North Africa to the Levant, South arabia to Turkey, Persia and places further east, including Soviet Central Asia and China. Fearless and indomitable, Freya Stark travelled alone as a woman where few European men had dared to venture. Many of her most i... more »nteresting pictures are of women, in their traditional costumes, for her sex enabled her to overcome the taboo that often prevents European men from photographing women in the East. Also contains a short memoir describing the major events of her long, rich, colourful life.« less