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Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark by Jane Fletcher Geniesse: Used
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2001-07-24
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN
- 9780375757464
- Book Title
- Passionate Nomad : the Life of Freya Stark
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Travel, History
- Topic
- Women, Europe / Great Britain / General, Middle East / General
- Item Weight
- 14.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
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A New York Times Notable Book * Finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction "Highly readable biography . . . The woman who emerges from these pages is a complex figure--heroic, driven . . . and entirely human."--Richard Bernstein, The New York Times Passionate Nomad captures the momentous life and times of Freya Stark with precision, compassion, and marvelous detail. Hailed by The Times of London as "the last of the Romantic Travellers" upon her death in 1993, Freya Stark combined unflappable bravery, formidable charm, fearsome intellect, and ferocious ambition to become the twentieth century's best-known woman traveler. Digging beneath the mythology, Geniesse uncovers a complex, controversial, and quixotic woman whose indomitable spirit was forged by contradictions: a child of privilege, Stark grew up in near poverty; yearning for formal education, she was largely self-taught; longing for love, she consistently focused on the wrong men. Despite these hardships, Stark's astonishing career spanned more than sixty years, during which she produced twenty-two books that sealed her reputation as a consummate woman of letters. This edition includes a new Epilogue by the author that, citing newly discovered evidence, calls into question the circumstances of Stark's birth and adds new insight into this adventurous and lively personality. Praise for Passionate Nomad " Passionate Nomad is a work of nonfiction that reads and sings with the drama and lilt of a fine novel. The story of Freya Stark is stunning, inspiring, sad, funny, unique, and moving. Jane Fletcher Geniesse tells it straight, but with a care for delicious detail and a sympathy for the characters that make this a truly special book." --Jim Lehrer " Passionate Nomad supplies a fascinating individual thread in the tapestry of twentiethcentury Middle Eastern history. . . . [Geniesse] has achieved, in the end, an admirable focus, at once critical and sympathetic. . . . For all Stark's unresolved contradictions, . . . her distinction as a latter-day woman of letters survives." -- The New York Times Book Review "Compulsively readable . . . [Geniesse] has done a thorough job re-creating the life of a woman many consider to be the last of the great romantic travelers." -- The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375757465
ISBN-13
9780375757464
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1809531
Product Key Features
Book Title
Passionate Nomad : the Life of Freya Stark
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Topic
Women, Europe / Great Britain / General, Middle East / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
14.3 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"[Geniesse] has achieved, in the end, an admirable focus, at once critical and sympathetic. The portrait that emerges is a subtle and generous one. For all Stark's unresolved contradictions, … her distinction as a latter-day woman of letters survives." New York Times Book Review
Lccn
2001-030460
Dewey Decimal
910.92 B
Lc Classification Number
Ct788.S72g46 2001
Copyright Date
2001
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