The Woman Who Captured The Assassins’ Castle
The “Last of the Romantic Travelers” Had a Taste for Danger
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12 min readNov 13, 2020
When Freya Stark set out for the Middle East in 1927, she brought Dante’s Inferno, a fur coat, a revolver and very little money. She had dreamt of exploring the region ever since an aunt gave her a copy of Arabian Nights for her ninth birthday but it had taken her almost 30 years to get…
