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Seen in the Yemen : travelling with Freya Stark and others / by Hugh Leach ; with a foreword by John Murray.
Penn Museum Library DS247.A22 L43 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leach, Hugh, 1934-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stark, Freya.
- Travel.
- Yemen, South--Description and travel.
- Yemen, South.
- Leach, Hugh, 1934---Travel--Yemen, South.
- Leach, Hugh.
- Stark, Freya--Travel--Yemen, South.
- South Yemen.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 308 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Arabian Publishing, 2011.
- Summary:
- This is a book of b&w photos and text by an Englishman who spent most of his 36-year career as a soldier and diplomat in the Middle East and has spent years since his retirement studying Islam, leading exhibitions, and writing histories. He enjoyed a long friendship with Dame Freya Stark (1893-1993)--inveterate traveler, photographer, and author--and the two traveled together to north Yemen in the mid-1970s, when she was 83. The country is currently in upheaval, making this documentation of people and places particularly poignant. Distribution in North America is by the David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780955889455
- 0955889456
- OCLC:
- 690084983
- Publisher Number:
- 99943582882
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