In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

Part Six Freya Madeline Stark 1893–1993 And then the wonder happened! Camels appeared on our left hand: first a few here and there, then more and more, till the whole herd came browsing along, five hundred or more. . . . I can’t tell you what a wonderful sight it was: as if one were suddenly in the very morning of the world among the people of Abraham or Jacob. . . . I never imagined that my first sight of the desert would come with such a shock of beauty and enslave me right away. —Fr eya St a r k in a letter to Penelope Ker, in Caroline Moorehead, Over the Rim of the World: Selected Letters of Freya Stark Figure 6. Herbert Olivier, Dame Freya Madeline Stark. Oil on canvas, 1923. © National Portrait Gallery, London , with permission of Jasper Olivier. ...

Share