Freya Stark – The Southern Gates of Arabia – 1938

Freya Stark’s pioneering journey through the ancient incense routes of the Hadhramaut area of Yemen. A travel classic, part of three books by the author on the same region in the 1930s.

“In 1935 Miss Stark travelled by herself into South Arabia to the Hadhramaut – a country still partly unexplored and unmapped….by living with the people of the Hadhramaut and by travelling with them, Miss Stark achieved much that would otherwise have been impossible.”

With numerous B&W photos throughout.

Hardback, published in 1938 by John Murray in London. A later printing of the 1936 first edition. In good condition. Bound in cream cloth with green lettering to spine and author’s name to front board. No jacket. Spotting to spine. Previous owner’s name inside.