Traveller's Prelude
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Before she became one of the twentieth century's most celebrated travel writers and explorers, Freya Stark was a young woman possessed of an extraordinary restlessness — and Traveller's Prelude is the luminous autobiography that chronicles the formative years that shaped her legendary wandering spirit. Set against the backdrop of a bohemian European childhood and the tremors of the First World War, this memoir traces Stark's journey from her unconventional upbringing in Italy and England to her first intrepid forays into the uncharted Middle East, presenting a portrait of a mind being steadily forged by hardship, beauty, and an insatiable hunger for the unknown. Written with the lyrical precision and dry wit that would come to define Stark's celebrated prose, this first volume of her autobiography illustrates the deep intellectual and emotional currents running beneath even the most arduous of her early adventures. She argues, implicitly and eloquently, that the true explorer is made long before the journey begins — in the libraries, the mountain paths, and the quiet rebellions of a singular childhood. Readers who finish this memoir will find themselves unable to resist following Stark wherever she chooses to lead them next.
Author: Freya Stark
Format: Hardback
Published: 1950, John Murray
Genre: Travel & exploration
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Before she became one of the twentieth century's most celebrated travel writers and explorers, Freya Stark was a young woman possessed of an extraordinary restlessness — and Traveller's Prelude is the luminous autobiography that chronicles the formative years that shaped her legendary wandering spirit. Set against the backdrop of a bohemian European childhood and the tremors of the First World War, this memoir traces Stark's journey from her unconventional upbringing in Italy and England to her first intrepid forays into the uncharted Middle East, presenting a portrait of a mind being steadily forged by hardship, beauty, and an insatiable hunger for the unknown. Written with the lyrical precision and dry wit that would come to define Stark's celebrated prose, this first volume of her autobiography illustrates the deep intellectual and emotional currents running beneath even the most arduous of her early adventures. She argues, implicitly and eloquently, that the true explorer is made long before the journey begins — in the libraries, the mountain paths, and the quiet rebellions of a singular childhood. Readers who finish this memoir will find themselves unable to resist following Stark wherever she chooses to lead them next.