Freya Stark
Freya Stark (31 January 1893 – 9 May 1993) was a British travel writer, born in Paris; her mother, Flora, was an Italian of Polish/German descent, her father, Robert, an English painter from Devon.
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Quotes
- One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.
- Cited in Molly Izzard, A Marvellous Eye, Cornucopia Issue 2. From Wikipedia: Freya Stark. Retrieved 2009-08-25
- To awaken quite alone in a strange town, is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
- Baghdad Sketches
- There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
- The Journey's Echo (1963), p. 161.
