Hailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, The Valleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as one of her generation's most intrepid explorers. The book chronicles her travels into Luristan, the mountainous terrain nestled between Iraq and present-day Iran, often with only a single guide and on a shoestring budget. Stark, described by The Times of London as “the last of the Romantic Travellers” upon her death in 1993, published during her lifetime more than thirty books about her travels in the Middle East. — From the book cover
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