The Valleys of the Assassins - A John Murray Journey

The travel classic by intrepid explorer Freya Stark, relating her journeys through the infamous 'Valleys of the Assassins' alone in the 1930s. A John Murray Journey.

About the author

Freya Stark (1893-1993) was an Anglo-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan, as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first Europeans to travel through the southern Arabian Desert. During World War II she worked for the British Ministry of Information in Aden, Baghdad, and Cairo, where she founded the anti-Nazi Brotherhood of Freedom. She was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1972.Monisha Rajesh is a British journalist whose writing has appeared in Time magazine, The New York Times, The Guardian and The Sunday Telegraph. Winner of the National Geographic Traveller Book of the Year, she was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 2020. Monisha was born in Norfolk and mostly raised in Yorkshire - with a brief stint in Madras. She currently lives in London with her husband and two daughters.

Summary

The travel classic by intrepid explorer Freya Stark, relating her journeys through the infamous 'Valleys of the Assassins' alone in the 1930s. A John Murray Journey.

Product details

• Authors: Freya Stark, Stark Freya
• Assisted by: Monisha Rajesh (Introduction), Rajesh Monisha (Introduction)
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.07.2021
• EAN: 9781529379778
• ISBN: 978-1-5293-7977-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Overcoming Books
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / General, TRAVEL / Middle East / General, Middle East