Description: Now in trade paperback comes the first biography published in America of Freya Stark, last of the great female adventurers and one of the most engaging writers of the 20th century. Photos throughout.
Review Quotes: "[Geniesse] has achieved, in the end, an admirable focus, at once critical and sympathetic. The portrait that emerges is a subtle and generous one. For all Stark's unresolved contradictions, ... her distinction as a latter-day woman of letters survives." New York Times Book Review