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Explorer

Freya Stark, born on January 31, 1893, and died on May 9, 1993, was a renowned British explorer. She is best known for her expeditions in the Middle East, where she conducted in-depth research on local culture, history, and geography.

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Famous Freya Stark Quotes

“In smaller, more familiar things, memory weaves her strongest enchantments, holding us at her mercy with some trifle, some echo, a tone of voice, a scent of tar and seaweed on the quay. . . . This surely is the meaning of home—a place where every day is multiplied by all the days before it.”

Home Travel Memory

Author:Freya Stark

“Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.”

Heart Whole Facts Stories Home Bits Pieces Childhood Events Whole Life Christmas Carrie Repetition Validity Nursery

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world.”

People World Want Giving Feelings Home Found Nice Likes Rushing Permanence Restful

Book:Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46

Source: Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46

“Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.”

Source: the zodiac arch

“The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.”

Feelings Home Travel Fruit

Author:Freya Stark

About the Author

Born: January 31, 1893
Died: May 9, 1993
Known for: Explorer
Quotes: 126

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The Journey's Echo: SelectionsRelated source material

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Perseus In The Wind: A Life of TravelRelated source material

The Lycian ShoreRelated source material

A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through YemenRelated source material

Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through IraqRelated source material

Ionia: A QuestRelated source material

Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46Related source material

Letters: The furnace and the cup, 1914-30Related source material

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