ABOUT THIS BOOK

In the fall of 1928, thirty-five year-old Freya Stark set out on her first journey to the Middle East. She spent most of the next four years in Iraq and Persia, visiting ancient and medieval sites, and traveling alone through some of the wilder corners of the region.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Freya Stark was the author of over thirty-five books, including The Valley of Assassins, Beyond Euphrates, Alexander's Path, and Dust in the Lion's Paw.

REVIEWS

"Freya Stark writes beautiful, rousing travel prose. Her Baghdad Sketches . . . have a polish that is as genuine as it is rare." --Forum

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"In every one of these articles we see the same astonishing and delicate power to evoke a scene." --Spectator

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"This is more than just another travel book. . . . As good travel literature it stands with the best." --Saturday Review of Literature

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: The Making of a Traveller by Barbara Kreiger

Baghdad Sketches
   Foreword
   The Desert Route
   An Introduction from Damascus
   In the Moslem Quarter
   Marie the Armenian
   Life in the Slum
   The Makign of a Nationalist
   Concerning Smells
   A Chapter of Discord
   The Life of the River
   A Visit in the Desert
   Concerning Manners
   A Syriac Christmas
   Education
   Ramadhan
   The Fellahin
   The Nisibin Road
   The Young Effendi and the Sentimental Traveller
   The Devil Worshippers
   The Death of Mandali
   The Kuwait Journey
   Kuwait. II 1937
   Failichah
   The "Slaves' Club"
   Cosmetics
   The 'Ashura
   One of the Four Holy Cities of Iraq
   Samarra and Tekrit
   Neif

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