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Stark, Freya.
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Stark, Freya -- Travel -- Iraq.
Baghdad (Iraq) -- Description and travel.
Iraq -- Description and travel.
Iraq -- Social life and customs.
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Stark, Freya.
Stark, Freya -- Travel -- Iraq.
Baghdad (Iraq) -- Description and travel.
Iraq -- Description and travel.
Iraq -- Social life and customs.
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Baghdad sketches : journeys through
Iraq
/
Freya
Stark
.
by
Stark
,
Freya
.
Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2011.
Call #:
915.67 S795b
Subjects
Stark
,
Freya
--
Travel
--
Iraq
.
Baghdad (
Iraq
)
--
Description and
travel
.
Iraq
--
Description and
travel
.
Iraq
--
Social life and customs.
ISBN:
9781848856554 (pbk.)
1848856555 (pbk.)
Description:
x, 200 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
First published in 1937 by John Murray (Publishers) Limited.
Summary:
"
Freya
Stark
first journeyed to
Iraq
in 1927. Seven years after the establishment of the British Mandate, the modern state was in its infancy and worlds apart from the country it has since become. During her many years in
Iraq
,
Stark
was witness to the rise and fall of the British involvement in the country as well as the early years of independence. Typically--and controversially--she chose to live outside the close-knit western expatriate scene and immersed herself in the way of life of ordinary Iraqis--living in the 'native' quarter of the city and spending time with its tribal sheikhs and leaders. Venturing out of Baghdad, she traveled to Mosul, Nineveh, Tikrit and Najaf, where she perceptively describes the millennia-old tensions between Sunni and Shi'a. In the 1940s she returned again, this time traveling south, to the Marsh Arabs, whose way of life has now all but disappeared; north into Kurdistan and later, Kuwait, in the days before the oil boom."--From publisher.
Genre:
Travel
memoirs.
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Alderney Gate Public Library
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915.67 S795b
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