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Freya Stark
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Dame Freya Madeline Stark DBE (31 January 1893 - 9 May 1993), was an Anglo-Italian explorer and travel writer.
Quotes
One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.
Cited in Molly Izzard, A Marvellous Eye, Cornucopia Issue 2. From Wikipedia: Freya Stark. Retrieved 2009-08-25
To awaken quite alone in a strange town, is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
Baghdad Sketches
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
The Journey's Echo (1963), p. 161.
External links
Category:Explorers from England
Category:Travel writers
Category:Women authors from England
Category:Centenarians
Category:1893 births
Category:1993 deaths
Category:People from Paris
Category:Women born in the 19th century