Freya Madeline Stark lived for a century, and into that one hundred years she packed a life of extraordinary daring and ingenuity. "Personally I would rather feel wrong with everybody else than right all by myself," she wrote in Baghdad Sketches...

1893-1993 British Explorer and Writer Freya Madeline Stark was a British explorer who lived during a time when explorers were regarded as heroes. She traveled to remote areas of the Middle East, where few Europeans—especially women—had...

1893-1993 British writer well known for her books describing local history, culture, and everyday life of countries she visited. Many of her trips were to remote places where no woman had ever traveled. Her travels in Iran were the inspiration for her...

Freya Stark Born January 31, 1893, Paris, France Died May 9, 1993, Asolo, Italy Born in Paris in 1893, Freya Stark seemed destined for a life of travel right from the start. Her parents were wealthy painters who moved freely about Europe, and some of...

Dame Freya Madeleine Stark, DBE (b. 31 Jan1893, Paris France - d. 9 May 1993, Asolo Italy) was a British travel writer. In between that time, she was famous for her experiences in the Middle East, her writing, and her cartography. Freya Stark was not...

Dame Freya Stark, C.B.E., died on the 9th of May 1993. She was 100 years old: in her 80s she had travelled intrepidly. And yet, the facts and the fame', Molly Izzard pronounced, |do not correspond'. And too much of the book is...

El movimiento feminista ha trazado en las últimas décadas una imagen no pocas veces planamente aburrida de la mujer emancipada. Curiosamente, esa visión repetida hasta la saciedad por los medios de comunicación pasa por alto algunos de los ejemplos más apasionantes -y contemporáneos-...