Freya Stark – Dust in the Lion’s Paw – Autobiography 1939-46

An early printing of the fourth and final book of memoirs by Freya Stark, the explorer and writer best-known for her accounts of southern Arabia in the 1930s.

This covers the 1939-46 period of her life, spanning the Second World War, when she spent time in Aden, Cairo and Baghdad on efforts related to anti-Nazi propaganda and information on behalf of the British government.

Features various black-and-white photographs.

Published by John Murray in 1962, a reprint of the 1961 first edition. Hardback, original jacket. In very good condition indeed. 297 pages.