Beyond Euphrates: Autobiography 1928-1933

Freya Stark fascinates the world with stories of her intrepid travels to the Middle East & lively accounts of her early life. In her first journey, a trip through the Alps in a basket at the age of two. Euphrates takes up the tale at the start of her Eastern travels in 1928 through 1933, undeterred by an illness which threatened her life. Through letters & snatches of her diary, she describes Baghdad, life in a harem in Damascus, journeys in Persia & a treasure hunt in Luristan.