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Title: A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen
ISBN: 1585672904
Author:
Freya Stark
Publicate Date: 2002-06-01
Publish: 2002-06-01
List Price: $16.95
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Paperback
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1: A beautiful read
A travel memoir written in the late 1930s - and 1000 years ago. It's a beautifully written, gentle book of a harsh land and its tribal peoples. Stark, is both poet and pragmatist. More musings and personal interactions than places and things, the book is a pleasure to read and savor. I wonder if the history of the Middle East wouldn't be improved had the colonial powers been guided by her sympathetic but unblinking understanding of Arab village and bedouin cultures.
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2: great travel writing
This is what travel writing should be. One travels to see places and meet people. Ms. Stark's descriptions of places and travel thereto are always informed and interesting. The encounters with people are the little jewels studding her books, though. She brings a worldly but sympathetic attitude to her encounters with everyone she meets, from potentates to brigands. Read it.
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