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The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels

Name: The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels
Brand: Random House Publishing Group
SKU: 9780375757532
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Contributors:

Freya Stark

Publisher:

Random House Publishing Group

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Travel, History

Book Subcategory:

Essays & Travelogues, Middle East

Series:

Modern Library (Paperback)

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Release Date:

2001-07-24

ISBN 13:

9780375757532

Weight:

0.53 lbs

Size:

8.04 x 5.30 x 0.71 inches

Pages:

320

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Hailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation's most intrepid explorers. The book chronicles her travels into Luristan, the mountainous terrain nestled between Iraq and present-day Iran, often with only a single guide and on a shoestring budget.

Stark writes engagingly of the nomadic peoples who inhabit the region's valleys and brings to life the stories of the ancient kingdoms of the Middle East, including that of the Lords of Alamut, a band of hashish-eating terrorists whose stronghold in the Elburz Mountains Stark was the first to document for the Royal Geographical Society. Her account is at once a highly readable travel narrative and a richly drawn, sympathetic portrait of a people told from their own compelling point of view.

This edition includes a new Introduction by Jane Fletcher Geniesse, Stark's biographer.

About the Author
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.

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