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The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Freya Stark
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:320
Dimensions(mm): Height 203,Width 132
Category/GenreTravel writing
ISBN/Barcode 9780375757532
ClassificationsDewey:915.50452
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Random House USA Inc
Imprint Modern Library Inc
Publication Date 24 July 2001
Publication Country United States

Description

A masterpiece by our preeminent travel writer and intrepid explorer: a parkling and illuminating account of adventure and discovery in the middle east

Author Biography

Freya Stark, described by The Times of London as "the last of the Romantic Travellers" upon her death in 1993, published during her lifetime more than thirty books about her travels in the Middle East, including The Southern Gates of Arabia. Jane Fletcher Geniesse is a former reporter for The New York Times and the author of the biography Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark, a finalist for the 1999 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Her writing has been featured in The Washington Post, New York magazine, and Town & Country. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Reviews

[Freya Stark] writes angelically in the great tradition of Charles Doughty and T. E. Lawrence. The pulse quickens as you read, because she can bring the sights and sounds of incredible countries before you in the twinkling of an eye." --The New York Times Book Review "[The Valleys of the Assassins] remains a wonderful description of a people and a place, altered today by Progress, perhaps, but through [Freya Stark's] eyes still alive with bandits, dervishes, idol worshippers, armed tribesmen, and mountain scenery of great beauty." --From the Introduction by Jane Fletcher Geniesse "Stark is constantly alive to her immediate surroundings: indeed, what gives her work its extraordinary depth and power is just this ability to focus past and present... stereoscopically, in a single image." --Times Literary Supplement [London]