Freya Stark Collection. [A Winter in Arabia, East is West, Traveller’s Prelude, Beyond Euphrates, The Coast of Incense, Ionia: A Quest, The Lycian Shore, Riding to the Tigris, Dust in the Lion’s Paw, Rome on the Euphrates, The Minaret of Djam.

STARK, Freya.

Item Number: 142168

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc./London: John Murray, 1940-1970.

Collection of 11 novels and autobiographies by British-Italian explorer and travel writer Freya Stark. Octavo, 11 volumes, original cloth. The collection includes first editions of A Winter in Arabia, Beyond Euphrates, The Coast of Incense, and Ionia: A Quest. The Lycian Shore, Riding to the Tigris, Rome on the Euphrates, and The Minaret of Djam: An Excursion in Afghanistan with early printings of East is West, Traveller’s Prelude, Dust in the Lion’s Paw. Each volume is in near fine condition, 8 are in the original dust jackets which are in good to near fine condition.

British-Italian explorer and travel writer Dame Freya Madeline Stark 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 non-Arabs known to travel through the southern Arabian Desert in modern times. Her best-known works include A Winter in Arabia (1940). East and West (1945), and Perseus in the Wind (1948).