Freya Stark ist eine der Klassikerinnen des Reisens. "Im Tal der Mörder" war ihr erstes Buch. Es machte sie mit einem Schlag berühmt. Freya Stark died in 1993, as "one of the last of the romantic travellers".
Eine Europäerin im Persien der dreißiger Jahre

Released on Thursday, April 17, 2003 to Fellow-BookCrosser in Munich

The English ed. goes - as 'RABCK' - to fellow-bookcrosser *mojitopt*. I've seen from his wish list that he might be interested in the subject. I've got a German edition as well: - "Im Tal der Mörder". This one (seen here) I'll keep ;-)

Got this book by mail today from fellow BCer Bni-Legi. Thank you so much! This came as a complete surprise. I have Ella Maillert and Annemarie Schwarzbach on my wish list, but don't know this travel writer yet. Looking forward to reading her Persian Travels...

I finally gave up on this one after having read only half way through. Somehow it was really difficult to keep reading a number of pages in a row. Not that I wouldn't be interested in Freya's "trip report" (as you would call it today) to Luristan, the region where today's Iran and Iraq border. But somehow the descriptive style of her writing was to tiring for me.

Released on Thursday, November 25, 2004 at about 11:00:00 AM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at Meetup in --Per Post geschickt/Persönlich weitergegeben--, Hamburg Germany.

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Travels on to fellow BCeress dschinny

Thanks to mojitopt for passing it on to me. Will see how far I get with it...

Will pass it on to fizzfred once I'm done with it.

I didn't even make it halfway through. It's not that it's not interesting because travelling alone as a woman in that part of the world in that time is fascinating. But I couldn't make out any of this in the writing so far. It's written quite in a descriptive style but mainly keeps to the surrounding landscape and outer appearances of people. All the important information (that I want) is left out. It seems quite distant and sometimes bored. I can feel nothing of the excitement of travelling that this kind of book should evoke.

Well, considering my Mt. TBR I decided to give up and let fizzfred have a go at it.

6.4. Will be sent on its way today.

I received this today from dschinny. Thank you so much for the RABCK! I was interested in reading this because it is quoted often in Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach. I am a bit nervous after reading the previous journal entries though. :) I'll journal again once I read it.