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Freya Stark Photograph Collection

 

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Guide
Printed guide listing photos by region.

Content note
Organized into the following albums
Aden
Afghanistan (I-III)
China
Crusader Coast
Egypt
Far East
Greece (I-IV)
India
Iraq
Kuwait
Lebanon, Palestine, Jordania
Libya (I-II)
Malta and Crete
Nepal (I-III)
Persia
Sicily and Cyprus
South Arabia
Syria
Tunisia
Turkey.

Biographical note
Dame Freya Stark, who died in May 1993 at the age of 100, visited and photographed many countries, especially the in the Middle East and Mediterranean regions. Most of the photographs were taken with the same camera, a Leica III, which she bought in 1933 and used on all her travels. She was the author of numerous travel books and several volumes of autobiography.