Freya Stark is most famous for her travels in Arabia at a time when
very few men, let alone women, had fully explored its vast
hinterlands. In 1934, she made her first journey to the Hadhramaut
in what is now Yemen - the first woman to do so alone. Even though
that journey ended in disappointment, sickness and a forced rescue,
Stark, undeterred, returned to Yemen two years later. Starting in
Mukalla and skirting the fringes of the legendary and unexplored
Empty Quarter, she spent the winter searching for Shabwa - ancient
capital of the Hadhramaut and a holy grail for generations of
explorers. From within Stark's beautifully-crafted and deeply
knowledgeable narrative emerges a rare and exquisitely-rendered
portrait of the customs and cultures of the tribes of the Arabian
Peninsula. A Winter in Arabia is one of the most important pieces
of literature on the region and a book that placed Freya Stark in
the pantheon of great writers and explorers of the Arab World. To
listen to her voice is to hear the rich echoes of a land whose
'nakedness is clothed in shreds of departed splendour'.
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