Baghdad Sketches

by Freya Stark, Barbara Kreiger (Introduction)

Overview

In the fall of 1928, thirty-five year-old Freya Stark set out on her first journey to the Middle East. She spent most of the next four years in Iraq and Persia, visiting ancient and medieval sites, and traveling alone through some of the wilder corners of the region.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810160231
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Publication date:	12/04/1996
Series:	Marlboro Travel
Edition description:	1
Pages:	177
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Freya Stark was the author of over thirty-five books, including The Valley of Assassins, Beyond Euphrates, Alexander's Path, and Dust in the Lion's Paw.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Making of a Traveller by Barbara Kreiger

Baghdad Sketches
     Foreword
     The Desert Route
     An Introduction from Damascus
     In the Moslem Quarter
     Marie the Armenian 
     Life in the Slum
     The Makign of a Nationalist
     Concerning Smells
     A Chapter of Discord
     The Life of the River
     A Visit in the Desert
     Concerning Manners
     A Syriac Christmas
     Education 
     Ramadhan
     The Fellahin
     The Nisibin Road
     The Young Effendi and the Sentimental Traveller
     The Devil Worshippers
     The Death of Mandali
     The Kuwait Journey
     Kuwait. II 1937
     Failichah
     The "Slaves' Club"
     Cosmetics
     The 'Ashura
     One of the Four Holy Cities of Iraq
     Samarra and Tekrit
     Neif

Editorial Reviews

"Freya Stark writes beautiful, rousing travel prose. Her Baghdad Sketches . . . have a polish that is as genuine as it is rare." —Forum



"In every one of these articles we see the same astonishing and delicate power to evoke a scene." —Spectator



"This is more than just another travel book. . . . As good travel literature it stands with the best." —Saturday Review of Literature

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