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Freya Stark

explorer, travel writer, photographer, essayist, mountaineer

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1893  – 1993

Dame Freya Madeline Stark was a British-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabs known to travel through the southern Arabian Desert in modern times.

All Quotes by Freya Stark

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”
— Freya Stark
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”
— Freya Stark
“One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.”
— Freya Stark
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town, is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”
— Freya Stark
“Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.”
— Freya Stark
“Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.”
— Freya Stark