Freya Madeline Stark

British travel writer (1893-1993) · United Kingdom · Writers · Died at 100

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Dame Freya Madeline Stark was a British-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabs known to travel through the southern Arabian Desert in modern times.

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1993Died9 May 19931987Gold Medal of the Society of Woman GeographersAward1946Honorary Citizen of AsoloAward1942Founder’s MedalAward1935Mungo Park MedalAward1934Burton Memorial MedalAward1893Born31 January 1893

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