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A Winter in Arabia
A Journey Through Yemen
Taschenbuch von Freya Stark
Sprache: Englisch

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From within this 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.

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.

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'.
From within this 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.

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.

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'.
Über den Autor
Freya Stark
Zusammenfassung
A portrait of the customs and cultures of the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword by Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O.

1. From the Air
2. Mukalla Revisited
3. Transport and the Cook
4. The Towns of the Kathiri

The Diary

The Journey

5. The Journey Begins
6. Wadi 'Amd
7. Sickness in 'Amd
8. Robin
9. The High Jol
10. The Drawings of Rahbe
11. Across the Watershed
12. Arrivalin 'Azzan
13. Naqb al Hajr
14. Jebel Kadur
15. The Sultan's Caravan
16. The Site of Cana
17. A Dhow to Aden

Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Reiseberichte
Region: Reiseerzählungen
Rubrik: Reisen
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780755633821
ISBN-10: 0755633822
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Stark, Freya
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 199 x 131 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Freya Stark
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.03.2020
Gewicht: 0,279 kg
Artikel-ID: 118056451
Über den Autor
Freya Stark
Zusammenfassung
A portrait of the customs and cultures of the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword by Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O.

1. From the Air
2. Mukalla Revisited
3. Transport and the Cook
4. The Towns of the Kathiri

The Diary

The Journey

5. The Journey Begins
6. Wadi 'Amd
7. Sickness in 'Amd
8. Robin
9. The High Jol
10. The Drawings of Rahbe
11. Across the Watershed
12. Arrivalin 'Azzan
13. Naqb al Hajr
14. Jebel Kadur
15. The Sultan's Caravan
16. The Site of Cana
17. A Dhow to Aden

Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Reiseberichte
Region: Reiseerzählungen
Rubrik: Reisen
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780755633821
ISBN-10: 0755633822
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Stark, Freya
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 199 x 131 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Freya Stark
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.03.2020
Gewicht: 0,279 kg
Artikel-ID: 118056451
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