Freya Stark Perseus in the Wind (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Perseus in the WindCondition: NewEAN: 9781838601812ISBN: 9781838601812Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/16/2019Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Weight: 160gAuthor: Freya StarkLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: A Life of TravelISBN-10: 1838601813Description: 'She has written the best travel books of her generation and her name will survive as an artist in prose.' - The ObserverWritten just after the Second World War, Perseus in the Wind (named after the constellation) is perhaps the most personal, and haunting, of all Freya Stark's writings. She muses on the seasons, the effect light has on a landscape at a particular time of day, the smell of the earth after rain, Muslim saints, Indian temples, war and old age. Each chapter is devoted to a particular theme: happiness (simple pleasures, like her father's passion for the view from his cabin in Canada); education (to be able to command happiness, recognise beauty, value death, increase enjoyment); beauty (incongruous, flighty and elusive - a description of the stars, the burst of flowers in a park); death (a childhood awareness of the finality of time, the meaningfulness of the end); memory (the jewelled quality of literature, pleasure, love, an echo or a scent when aged by the passage of time). For those who have loved her travel writing, Perseus in the Wind illuminates the motivations behind Freya Stark's journeys and the woman behind the traveller.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: BiographyTopic: Travel & TransportRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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