Freya Stark in 1923

Dame Freya Madeline Stark DBE (31 January 1893 - 9 May 1993), was an Anglo-Italian explorer and travel writer.

Quotes

• 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.
  • Cited in Molly Izzard, A Marvellous Eye, Cornucopia Issue 2. From Wikipedia: Freya Stark. Retrieved 2009-08-25

• To awaken quite alone in a strange town, is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
  • Baghdad Sketches

• There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
  • The Journey's Echo (1963), p. 161.

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Freya Stark on Wikipedia