The Zodiac Arch by Stark, Freya - 1968

Hardback. Acceptable.

Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2014. Paperback. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2014 Tauris Parke Paperbacks softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. With such tantalising chapters as "In Defence of Smuggling" and "Lunch with Homer" this is a witty, eye-opening tapestry of Freya Stark's writings on travel and a life spent as one of the 20th century's most formidable adventuresses. In chronological order, spanning an extraordinary 50 years, from 1919 to 1967, Stark ranges from eloquent musings on the nature of travel, of being a woman - both writer and explorer - in what was then predominantly a male world and jewel-bright stories from across the world - Arabia to North Africa, Iran and India - that captivate the reader with every sentence. There are romantic picnics under starlit skies on remote islands, meaningful moments of quiet in Mecca and Jerusalem and heartfelt accounts of… Read More

Harcourt Brace and Company. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Good dust jacket. Former Library book. Slightly dampstained. (Middle East, travel, travel writing )

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Good.

London: John Murray, 1968 Ex-Linrary Copy in green cloth on boards in unclipped D/J. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Jacket chipped and creased around edges. Inside jacket cover has some liquid splash marks. Usual library stamps and labels. Clean text

John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1968. Unopened. D/w clipped.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.

John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1968-06-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 2.8173 cent in x 23.1726 cent in x 16.6751 cent in. First edition without jacket on green cloth will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable

John Murray, 1968. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, VG/G+. viii+230pp, b/w frontis, endpapers tanned, dustjacketprice clipped & a little worn along the edges. A collection of 34 previously un-published short travel essays. Freya Madeline Stark [ 1893 - 1993 ] British-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan, and was one of the first non-Arabs known to travel through the southern Arabian Desert in modern times.

London, John Murray, 1968, hardcover, viii-230 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, lower corners bumped, slight abrasions to blank front endpapers, color offsetting to endpapers. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light edge nicks, some loosening of surface laminate, in new Brodart sleeve. Thirty-four previously unpublished philosophical musings from the intrepid traveler in the style of her earlier book 'Perseus in the Wind'.