Freya Stark
Freya Stark
Dame Freya Madeline Stark, Mrs Perowne, DBEwas a British 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-Arabians to travel through the southern Arabian Deserts...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth31 January 1893
CityParis, France
life-is allowance
One life is an absurdly small allowance.
luck done want
One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.
travel sea silence
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.
travel behind-you latches
The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.
land unhappy substance
The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.