On the trail with Freya Stark takes readers to remote and often dangerous regions in Iran and the Middle East in the early twentieth century.
It also introduces us to a woman who was fluent in seven languages and wrote 22 books over a 60-year career.
Stark explored the mountainous territory of the mysterious Assassins of Persia, became the first woman to explore Luristan in Western Iran, and followed the ancient frankincense route to locate a lost city.
At first a thorn in the side of the British colonial establishment for consorting with 'wogs', Stark was later admired, and knighted at the age of 82 by the Queen.
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