The Valleys of the Assassins
By Freya Stark
By Freya Stark
Category: Middle Eastern World History | Classic Nonfiction | Travel Writing
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$20.00
Jul 24, 2001 | ISBN 9780375757532
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Praise
[Freya Stark] writes angelically in the great tradition of Charles Doughty and T. E. Lawrence. The pulse quickens as you read, because she can bring the sights and sounds of incredible countries before you in the twinkling of an eye."
—The New York Times Book Review
"[The Valleys of the Assassins] remains a wonderful description of a people and a place, altered today by Progress, perhaps, but through [Freya Stark’s] eyes still alive with bandits, dervishes, idol worshippers, armed tribesmen, and mountain scenery of great beauty."
–From the Introduction by Jane Fletcher Geniesse
"Stark is constantly alive to her immediate surroundings: indeed, what gives her work its extraordinary depth and power is just this ability to focus past and present… stereoscopically, in a single image."
—Times Literary Supplement [London]
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