Freya Stark is a well known British traveler and adventurer (1893-1993) whose work The Southern Gates of Arabia was and still is very popular. She followed the route of the Hadharamaut valley and she sought to be the first westerner to locate the lost city of Shabwa. Born in Paris, she was one of the first European women who traveled and wrote about the Middle East. Through close reading, I believe that Freya added to the feminism individuality of her writing in many ways by being a women with an astonishing sense of discovery.
The Southern Gates of Arabia is full of tragedy, humor, triumph, descriptions, and dialogues, her style was unique and smoothly written, and she jumps from one idea to another engaging the reader more to the content. The started off chapter I “The Arabian Coast” by wondering “why a ship appears to be on the whole a more satisfactory possession than a …show more content…
According to Jane Fletcher Geniesse in her book ''In the last seven years she had endured all kinds of physical discomfort, from hunger and thirst to being crawled over by fleas and flies, and there had been more than one occasion to agree with Baudelaire that 'the Orient without sun is nothing but a heap of filth,” she also mentioned that stark ''had been deeply moved by sweeping vistas in uncharted territory, awed by the fading footprints of history on ruined cities and especially impressed by the wisdom she found in cultures vastly different from her own.'' Stark has a complex personality which combines many characteristics in the same time. Unlike any other women, She sometimes likes being lonely and in many situations she gets heroic, for example, she faces her illness although she mentioned she was very sick. She expressed in many scenes her woman sensitivity and shows how she is entirely human. (write an example). This all brings us back to her multiple personalities
The Southern Gates of Arabia is full of tragedy, humor, triumph, descriptions, and dialogues, her style was unique and smoothly written, and she jumps from one idea to another engaging the reader more to the content. The started off chapter I “The Arabian Coast” by wondering “why a ship appears to be on the whole a more satisfactory possession than a …show more content…
According to Jane Fletcher Geniesse in her book ''In the last seven years she had endured all kinds of physical discomfort, from hunger and thirst to being crawled over by fleas and flies, and there had been more than one occasion to agree with Baudelaire that 'the Orient without sun is nothing but a heap of filth,” she also mentioned that stark ''had been deeply moved by sweeping vistas in uncharted territory, awed by the fading footprints of history on ruined cities and especially impressed by the wisdom she found in cultures vastly different from her own.'' Stark has a complex personality which combines many characteristics in the same time. Unlike any other women, She sometimes likes being lonely and in many situations she gets heroic, for example, she faces her illness although she mentioned she was very sick. She expressed in many scenes her woman sensitivity and shows how she is entirely human. (write an example). This all brings us back to her multiple personalities