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Dame Freya Madeline Stark, Mrs Perowne, DBE 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-Arabians to travel through the southern Arabian Deserts.

✵ 31. January 1893 – 9. May 1993
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Famous Freya Stark Quotes

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”

Freya Stark

The Journey's Echo (1963), p. 161 https://books.google.com/books?id=xlFbAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22There+can+be+no+happiness+if+the+things+we+believe+in+are+different+from+the+things+we+do.%22.

“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

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

“One life is an absurdly small allowance.”

Freya Stark

“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.”

Freya Stark

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